Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture Speakers
- 2025 Roshan Bastani, PhD, MA
- 2024 Michael Prelip, DPA, MPH
- 2023 Abdelmonem A. Afifi, PhD, MS
- 2022 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.