Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture Speakers

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  • 2021   Roger Detels, MD, MS

  • 2020   Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD

  • 2019   Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH

  • 2018   David M. Carlisle, MD, PHD ’92, MPH ‘88

  • 2017   Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH ‘05

  • 2016   Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH

  • 2015   Marjorie Kagawa Singer, PhD ‘88, MN ‘72

  • 2014   Gerald Kominski, PhD

  • 2013   Anne Pebley, PhD, MPS

  • 2012   Thomas Rice, PhD

  • 2011   Ronald Brookmeyer, PhD

  • 2010   Anna Deavere Smith, MFA

  • 2009   Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, PhD, MPH

  • 2008   Paul Krugman, PhD

  • 2007   Larry Brilliant, MD, MPH

  • 2006   Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD

  • 2005.  California State Senator Barbara Boxer

  • 2004   Lester Breslow, MD, MPH

  • 2003   Jared Diamond, PhD

  • 2002   U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, PhD

  • 2001   Jo Ivey Boufford, MD

  • 2000   John Froines, PhD and John Peters

  • 1999   U.S. SurgeonGeneral and Assistant Secretary for Health David Satcher, MD, PhD

  • 1998   Steven A. Schroeder, MD

  • 1997   Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky

  • 1996   E. Richard Brown, PhD

  • 1995   Dean Jamison, PhD, MS

  • 1994   Burt Margolin

  • 1993   Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD

  • 1992   Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH

  • 1991   Michael Pertschuck, JD

  • 1990   Thomas Charles Quinn, MD

  • 1989   Kristine Gebbie, DRPH, MSN‘68

  • 1988   J. Michael McGinnis, MD ‘71

  • 1987   William H. Foege, MD, MPH

  • 1986   Kenneth W. Kizer, MD ‘76, MPH, ‘76

  • 1985   Jay N. Hartz, JD, Jeffrey J. Pomerance, MD andBernard Towers, MB, CHB**

  • 1984   The Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden

  • 1983   Samuel J. Tibbits, BS’49

  • 1982   Robert N. Beck

  • 1980   Julius B. Richmond, MD, MS

  • 1979   US Representative (California) Henry A. Waxman, JD

  • 1978   Beverlee Myers, MPH

  • 1977   John D. Porterfield, MD

  • 1976   Judith Blake, PhD

  • 1975   Anthony C. Beilenson, JD

  • 1974   Rashi Fein, PhD

Lectures for which recordings are available are hyperlinked above.

*The Dean’s Distinguished Scholar series was merged with the Breslow event in 2011.