Susan Blumenthal

Susan Blumenthal
Blumenthal in 2022
Director of the Office on Women's Health
In office
1993–1997
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byWanda Jones
Personal details
Born
Susan Jane Blumenthal[1]

(1952-06-29) June 29, 1952 (age 71)
Spouse
(m. 1988)
Alma materReed College (BA)
Harvard University (MPA)
University of Tennessee (MD)
Uniformed service
Allegiance United States
Service/branch U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Years of service1984–2004
Rank Rear Admiral
Awards

Susan Jane Blumenthal (born June 29, 1952) is an American physician, global health expert, psychiatrist and public health advocate.[2] With more than two decades of service as a senior government health leader in the administrations of four U.S. presidents, Blumenthal served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health and director of the Office on Women's Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and senior global health advisor within the HHS.[2][3] She also was a research branch chief at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the chair of the NIH Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee.[4][5] As of 2016, she has served as the senior medical and policy advisor at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, a senior fellow in health policy at New America, and a clinical professor at Tufts and Georgetown Schools of Medicine.[6][7] Blumenthal is the Public Health Editor of the Huffington Post.[8][9] She is married to United States Senator Ed Markey.

  1. ^ "Dr. Susan Jane Blumenthal". cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "COA Frontline, Volume 46, Issue 4" (PDF). Commissioned Officers Association. May 2009. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  3. ^ "Shalom Magazine, Ed. 18". Shalom Magazine. Summer 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Physicians: Dr. Susan J Blumenthal". Changing the Face of Medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  5. ^ "Susan J Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A." Epernicus. Epernicus. 2016. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  6. ^ "amfAR :: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A :: The Foundation for AIDS Research :: HIV / AIDS Research". www.amfar.org. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  7. ^ "Susan Blumenthal - New America". New America. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  8. ^ "Susan Blumenthal, M.D." The Huffington Post. Huffington Post. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  9. ^ "Doctor Honoris Causa for Susan J. Blumenthal | Sapienza - Università di Roma". en.uniroma1.it. Retrieved 2016-01-08.

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