Lester Breslow Distinguished Lecture Speakers

• 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.