Satcher, David
1941-present · Contribution: 1993-2002
Public health leadership and policy; as Surgeon General, issued landmark reports on tobacco use among minorities, mental health, suicide prevention, and sexual health, and worked to eliminate racial health disparities
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Impact on the world
16th U.S. Surgeon General (first African American man in the role) and the first African American director of the CDC; a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service who later founded the Satcher Health Leadership Institute.
Life & background
African-American physician and public health administrator born March 2, 1941 in Anniston, AL. MD and PhD (cytogenetics), Case Western Reserve University (1970); president of Meharry Medical College (1982-1993).
Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica; Harvard Medical School; U.S. National Library of Medicine
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