Letter to Senators Demanding Action Against RFK Jr’s Systematic Assault on Global Immunization
To the Senators Who Confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the United States Chief Health Official:
Vaccines prevent up to five million deaths each year, most of them children. They are among the simplest, safest, and most powerful tools humanity has to save lives.
As infectious disease and public health experts, advocates, scientists, community leaders, and concerned citizens, we write to express our grave alarm at Secretary Kennedy’s systematic assault on vaccination in the United States and around the world. His actions are reckless, irresponsible—and put millions of lives at risk.
The United States has long been a champion of global immunization. Through consistent funding, groundbreaking scientific research, and multilateral cooperation, we have achieved extraordinary progress. With innovation derived from US government investment, we helped bring polio close to eradication, scaled up rotavirus vaccines to curb deadly diarrhea, and delivered pneumococcal vaccines to protect millions from pneumonia—while playing a leading role in eliminating measles in large parts of the world. The HPV vaccine, highly effective against several forms of cancer, is among the most consequential public health interventions of our time. These achievements—among the United States’ most significant contributions to public health—have been made possible through decades of bipartisan support.
Yet, since taking office on February 13, Secretary Kennedy has relentlessly undermined this legacy. Despite explicit assurances to Senator Cassidy, ranking member of the Senate HELP Committee, during confirmation hearings that he would uphold vaccination science and policy, Kennedy has instead used his platform to spread disinformation, attack science, and undermine trust.
On June 25, Secretary Kennedy escalated his attacks on public health. In a pre-recorded video delivered to the replenishment summit for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, he announced that the United States would no longer support this global immunization effort—a striking misuse of the occasion to deliver a politicized attack. He used the moment to sow needless doubt about the safety and effectiveness of one of the most widely used vaccines in human history. He falsely accused Gavi and its partners of ignoring science, recycled debunked conspiracy theories, and misrepresented established medical facts.
This is only the latest instance in a broader and deeply troubling pattern. Just a few of many examples include:
- Terminating the bird flu vaccine development contract;
- Undermining broader federal efforts on next-generation mRNA vaccine research;
- Slashing millions of dollars in NIH grants for studying vaccine hesitancy and how to improve immunization levels;
- Firing all 17 members of CDC’s vaccine advisory committee—its leading body on immunization policy—and replacing them with his ideological allies;
- Specifically targeting the HPV vaccine with false claims—despite its proven effectiveness in preventing cancer—and maintaining financial ties to lawsuits against the vaccine, from which he stands to profit personally;
- Decimating HIV vaccine research by cutting federal funding, sabotaging decades of scientific progress and endangering efforts to end the HIV pandemic;
- Promoting repeatedly disproven claims that vaccines cause autism;
- Supporting the defunding of Gavi, UNICEF, and WHO, all of which help deliver lifesaving vaccines around the world; and
- Backing the dismantling of USAID—gutting global health programs in over 70 countries, cutting off HIV prevention and treatment, maternal care, malaria control, and vaccine delivery, severing lifelines in conflict zones and refugee camps, and fueling a wave of preventable deaths.
While it remains unclear why Secretary Kennedy even addressed the assembly given that the responsibility for Gavi falls under Secretary Rubio, his actions have real and devastating consequences. Leading infectious disease experts warn that vaccine hesitancy, fueled by disinformation, poses a direct threat to U.S. national security—on par with terrorism and cyberattacks. The consequences are not abstract. The damage is already unfolding as measles outbreaks surge in the U.S. and around the globe.
Vaccines are safe and effective—the single most powerful technology we have to protect children’s lives and control the spread of disease. By declaring that the United States no longer supports vaccination abroad as safe or necessary, Secretary Kennedy is dismantling the foundation of immunization at home and abandoning decades of American global health leadership.
We ask you to reaffirm that it is Congress—not the executive branch—that controls appropriations and directs the United States’ commitment to global immunization. You have the responsibility—and the authority—to act.
We call on the Senate to:
- Reject the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind FY25 vaccine funding for Gavi, and immediately reaffirm full U.S. support for global immunization programs—including UNICEF-led efforts to stop measles and polio outbreaks.
- Launch a formal investigation into Secretary Kennedy’s misuse of office and public misrepresentation of U.S. public health policy;
- Use all available oversight and legislative tools to halt further damage, confront vaccine misinformation, and restore global confidence in American health leadership.
Secretary Kennedy has assaulted science, public health, and the truth. He has betrayed the nation’s values and poses a threat to millions of lives—here and abroad.
You have a responsibility to stop the harm.
Sincerely,
Organizations:
AVAC
Branch4
Capuchin Province of St. Joseph (Detroit)
Catholic Medical Mission Board
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Chicago Women’s AIDS Project
Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces
Defend Public Health
Disabled Children’s Fund
Faiths for Safe Water
Global Health Council
Health Global Access Project
HIV Counts
Infectious Disease Alliance
Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Katal Center for Equity, Health, and Justice
Louisiana Families for Vaccines
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Maryland Indoor Air Quality Advocates
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National Nurses United
NETWORK LOBBY for Catholic Social Justice
PAI
Physicians for a National Health Program – New York Metro Chapter
Physicians for Human Rights
Portland Jobs with Justice Health Care Committee
Project HOPE
Public Citizen
Public Health Advocates
Religions for Peace USA
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
RESULTS-Massachusetts
Ribbon – A Center of Excellence
Save HIV Funding Campaign
Sojourners
South Dakota Families for Vaccines
Spark Street Advisors
Stop TB USA
TaskForce Prevention and Community Services
Tennessee Families for Vaccines
The 2030 Collaborative
The Religious Nationalisms Project — TRNP
The Well Project
TIP Global Health
Treatment Action Group
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)
Individuals:
Adam Gaffney, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Adeline Morris, Epidemiologist, YSPH
Adi Radhakrishnan , Associate, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Aimee Bernard, PhD, Think Like a Scientist
Alan Levine, Professor, Case Western Reserve University
Alan Meyers , Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Alex Lankowski, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician
Alice M. Miller, Professor in the Practice, Yale School of Public Health and Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law and Public Health Schools
Alice Rothchild, MD, retired Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Alicia Yamin, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Alida Bouris, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, Co-Director, Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago
Alina Kung, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alina Rahman, Ms. Alina Rahman
Alisa Velonis, MPH, PhD, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
Alison Case, MD, family medicine physician
Aliye Runyan, MD, Ob/GYN; Metropolitan Medical Associates, NJ
AmberJean Hansen, MPH
Amy Donovan-Palmer, Health Director, Mansfield Health Department; Member, Plymouth Board of Health
Amy Jewett, Epidemiologist CDC
Ana Djordjevic, CUNY Brooklyn College (MSc, public health) & PNHP-NY Metro Board Member
Andrea Boggio, Professor, Bryant University
Andrew Wang, Public Health Professional
Angela Reed, CPNP-PC, AE-C, SANE Adjunct Professor Hope College
Anjali Sharma MD, Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ann Mayo, Professor University of San Diego
Ann Thomas, MD, MPH, Retired public health physician
Anna Baccellieri , PhD in Public Health, MPA. Director of Qualitative, Mixed Methods Research and Community Engagement, Renalis Health and Brown University
Anna Trinh, Masters of Public Health, Yale
Anne Kellett, Program Coordinator, Yale School of Global Affairs
Annelise Goldberg, Physician, SF DPH, UCSF
Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco
Aprill Z. Dawson, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor
Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco
Arnold Doyle, Public Health Advocate
Arthur Kellermann, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor, Emory University
Avik Chatterjee, MD, Boston University School of Medicine
Barbara Andersen, Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University
Barbara Dentz, MD FAAP
Barbra Villona, Emergency Medicine Physician
Beatrice Hahn, Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Becky Genberg, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
Ben Inventor, Associate Professor, Rush University
Benedicte Callan, PhD, Independent Researcher & Student Rutgers University School of Public Health
Beth Hoffman, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
Betty Kolod, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor
Beverly Bucur, Advocacy Lead- Women for Water Partnership
Brenda Berkman , Member, Defending Public Health
Brian Keith, Adjunct Professor of Cancer Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Brittany Shapiro Dooley , Maryland Department of Health
Brook K. Baker, Professor Emeritus, Northeastern Universtiy School of Law
Bruce Mirken , Coordinating Committee member, Defend Public Health
Caroline Au-Yeung, Research Scientist, Wilder Research
Carolyn Becker, Associate Professor of Medicine (retired) Harvard Medical School
Casey Blass, Retired Public Health Administrator
Cassidy Parshall, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Cassie Lopez-Jeng, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
Catherine Banobi, Project Manager, Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination
Catherine Dentinger, Family Nurse Practitioner
Catherine S. Forest, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, UCSF Natividad
Catherine Stanger , Professor, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
Catherine Tibbetts, MPH
Catherine Waters, Professor, UCSF
Dr. Cathy A. Coyne, Associate Professor of Practice in Public Health
Cecilia Forbes, HR Professional at Riverview Health
Celeste Simon, Professor U Pennsylvania
Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Professor Emerita, University of Arizona
Christine Martin, MD , MPH, WakeMed Pediatrics
Dr. Cindy Farris, Clinical Assistant Professor
Constance van Eeghen, DrPH, Associate Professor, University of Vermont
Cynthia Tschampl, Volunteer, RESULTS Massachusetts
D Rebecca Prevots, Scientist Emerita, NIH
Daniel Burdsall , Public Health Employee and Advocate
Daniel Goldstein, Senior Lecturer, University of Massachusetts
Danielle Ompad, Professor of Epidemiology, New York University School of Global Public Health
Danielle Romero, Previous Health Promotion Specialist at the University of Oklahoma
Danny McCormick, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David Bor, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David C Perlman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David Goldberg, Psy.D., Clinical Psychologist
David Himmelstein, MD and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, City University of New York and Lecturers in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David Moskowitz, Coordinating Board Member, Stop TB USA
David S. Levine, Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Professor, Elon University School of Law
David Vlahov, Professor of Nursing Yale University
Deborah Gust, PhD President PATHWAYS Leadership for Progress
Deborah Hennrikus, Associate Professor Emerita
Derrick Mapp, Community Advisor/Advocate
Donna Mildvan , MD
Dorothy Sinard, Founder Tennessee Families for Vaccines
Douglas Taren, Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Dr. Beth Meyerson, Beverly Benson McCord Endowed Chair; Director Harm Reduction Research Lab; Professor of Nursing; Professor of Family and Community Medicine; Policy Director, Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction (all affiliations with University of Arizona)
Dr. Diane Bruessow, DMS, PA-C
Dr. Kathryn Ramirez-Hacker, Doctor of Public Health
Dr. Leslye Heilig, MD, RESULTS
Dr. Mary van den Berg-Wolf, Adjunct Professor of Medicine,Temple University School of Medicine
Dr. Michael F. Simms, Michael Simms MD, St. Mary’s Hospital, Waterbury
Dr. Nina Wallerstein, Distinguished Professor, Public Health, University of New Mexico
Dr. Patricia Cameron, Associate Professor
Dr. Susan T Cookson, MD, MPH, FACP
Duncan Maru, Physician, H+H/Elmhurst Hospital
Echo Warner, Assistant Professor, University of Utah & Huntsman Cancer Institute
Elisa Breton, Physician
Elisa Ignatius , Infectious Diseases Physician
Elisha Cohn, Professor, Cornell University
Elizabeth Arend Dutta, DrPH, MPH, Research Scientist, George Washington University
Elizabeth Jacobs, Epidemiologist, Defend Public Health
Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, MPH, MST, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
Elizabeth Schrier, MD, Resident Physician, UCSF Department of Medicine
Elizabeth Withers, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Portland State University
Dr. Ellen Mason , MD, Physician, Cook County Health and Hospital System
Ellicott Matthay, Assistant Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Emalie Huriaux, MPH, Program Manager, Public Health
Emily Hohman, Associate Professor, Penn State University
Emily Killion, Epidemiologist, Core Epi Solutions
Eric Friedman, Global Health Justice Scholar, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Eric Vail, MD, Director, Molecular Pathology Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Erica Gollub, DrPH, Professor, Pace University
Erika Beatriz Garcia, Board Certified Family Medicine Physician Salina’s Valley Health
Eugenia Montesinos, PNHP
Frankie Wong, McKenzie Endowed Professor, Florida State University
Fred Dillon, Director, Social Impact Partnerships & Strategy, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Frederick L. Altice, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Yale Univerity
Gail Broder, Associate Director for Community Engagement, HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Geoffrey Holm, Professor and Chair of Biology, Colgate University
George J. DuPaul, Professor of School Psychology, Lehigh University
George M. Shaw, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Georgia Himmelstein, MD
Gina Dalfonzo, Member, DPH
Hannah Mestel, MPH, DrPH candidate
Hannah Williams, MPH, Public Health Professional
Heather Berg , Healthcare Partnerships Coordinator, WA State Dept of Health
Holly Ann Russell, Associate Professor Family Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center
Ilene Fennoy, Professor, Pediatrics Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Irene Koek, Senior Executive Service member (retired); formerly Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health, USAID (2017-2020)
Ivana Sirovic, Director, Resource Mobilization
Jackie Ellison, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Jacqueline Goldenberg, Defend Public Health
Jacqueline Merrill, RN, MPH, PhD, Professor of Nursing, Columbia University
Jacques Robert, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY
James M. Howe, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia
James Meek, Associate Director, Yale Emerging Infections Program
Jane Petro, Professor of Surgery NYMC
Janelle Francis, DNP RN, Community Health Nursing Instructor
Janet Golden, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
Jayne Somers , Retired Scientist
Jean Forster, Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota SPH
Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Associate Professor, the George Washington University
Jeffrey Levi, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Health Policy, George Washington University
Jennifer Balkus, University of Washington School of Public Health
Jennifer Edwards, MD, AAFP, AAIP
Jeremy Nuttall, Senior Director, Preclinical Sciences, Population Council
Jessica Peacock, Assistant Provost and Professor, Shenandoah University
Jessica Tyler, Professor of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Jill Folsom, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CNE. SUNY Plattsburgh
Jim Alwine, Emeritus Professor of Cancer Biology Univ. of Pennsylvanis
Jim Pickett, Senior Advisor at AVAC
Jim Recht, MD, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
JL Angell, Faith Leader
Jodie Guest, Professor, Emory University
Johana Teigen, Member, Defend Public Health
Johanna Crane, Professor of Bioethics, Albany Medical College
John P. Moore, PhD, Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
Jonathan Shaffer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont
Jonathan Stillo, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Jonathon Gass, Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Tufts University School of Medicine
Josh Barocas, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Joyce Slochower , PhD, NYU
Judith Richman , Professor Emerita of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Judy Fletcher , Health Committee Chair, NYCD16/15-Indivisible
Julie Marston, Executive Director of a public health nonprofit organization
Julie Scofield, Member, Defend Public Health Coordinating Committee
Julie Vaishampayan, MD, MPH, Physician
Julie Wegener, MD, retired
Justin Mendoza, Executive Director, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD
Karen Ogle MD , Emerita Professor, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
Karen Yao, Epidemiologist, WA State Health Care Authority
Kari Debbink, Associate Teaching Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Karl Broman, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Katherine Ginsbach , Senior Associate, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Katherine Goyette, MPH Candidate, Yale School of Public Health
Katherine Schaff, DrPH, PhD, Public Health
Kathleen Duemling, MD, MPH
Kathleen Egan, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Kathleen Fagan, MD, MPH, Physician, Adjunct Faculty, CWRU SOM
Kathryn Quissell, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Public Health Sciences
Kathy Cole-Kelly, Professor Emeritus, Case Medical School
Kathy Rospenda, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kathylynn Saboda, Retired, The University of Arizona
Kayla Rosenberg, Business Development Advisor, Pathfinder International
Kelly O’Shea, Senior Evaluation Scientist, Advocate Health
Kelly Pfeifer, MD, Principal, Care Access Strategies
Kelly S. Ramsey, Addiction Medicine Physician and Consultant, Kelly S. Ramsey Consulting, LLC
Kendra Phillips, Retired USAID Foreign Service Health Officer
Kenneth D. Rosenberg, MD, MPH, Epidemiologist, Oregon Health & Science University
Kenneth Foscue, MPH, Retired, Epidemiologist, CT Dept of Public Health
Kevin Larkin, Kevin Larkin, Professor of Psychology
Kinya Swanson , Psychologist
Kitty Arie, CEO, Results UK
Klaus Frueh, Professor for Immunology and Microbiology
Larry Gostin, Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights
Laura Gordon, MD, Urologist
Laura Khan , Retired CDC Scientist and Advisor
Laura Luther, Public Health Improvement Specialist, MPHI
Laura Mamo, Professor, San Francisco State University
Lauryn Berner-Davis, Director of Implementation Research, NHCHC
Leigh Phillips, Professor, Iowa State University
Lena Gerwick, Retired
Leslie Davidson, MD MSc, Professor Emerita, Columbia University
Lindsay McNair, MD, MPH, Physician
Lisa Levy, Researcher
Lisa Plymate, MD, retired Internist/ Geriatrician
Logan Kinamore MD, Chief Resident LSU Psychiatry Baton Rouge
Lucy Keatts, DVM
Luke Messac, Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Lynn Li, MD
Lynne Greabell, Professional Development Coordinator, SUNY Albany Center for Public Health Continuing Education
Madison Lyleroehr, Deputy Director, Midwest Access Coalition
Mallory Harris, Postdoc, University of Maryland
Marc Lavietes, PNHP NY Metro Chapter
Mardge Cohen, MD, Boston Health Care for the Homeless
Margaret L Beaman, RN PhD, Public Health Research Consultant
Maria Correa, Epidemiologist, CT Emerging Infections Program
Maria Ekstrand, Professor Emeritus, Division of Prevention Science (Department of Medicine), University of California, San Francisco
Maria Vintimilla, MD
The Rev. Dr. Marian Windel, Retired Episcopal Priest
Marie Dennis, Director, Catholic Institute for Nonviolence
Marie O’Neill, Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Mark Eisenberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical Schoolal
Mark Hubbard, Research / Science / HIV / Vaccine Advocate, Independent
Mark Ing, PhD FGSA, Director of Research and Evaluation, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, Hunter College, CUNY
Mark Scarborough, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Martha Livingston, Ph.D., Professor, Public Health,SUNY Old Westbury
Marthe Gold, Senior Research Scholar New York Academy of Medicine
Mary Tinetti, MD, Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Maureen Byrnes, Teaching Instructor Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University
Maureen Madden , Associate Professor, Rush University College of Nursing
Dr. Maya Poran, Associate Professor
Megan Fitzsimons, MPH, Epidemiologist, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Megan Gregory
Melanie Szahaj, Epidemiologist 1, Yale Emerging Infections Program
Melissa Greenspan, MD retired
Michael Iademarco, RADM, USPHS (retired)
Michael Neuroth, United Church of Christ Director of Washington Office of Policy and Advocacy
Michael Stern, M.D., Emergency Medicine Physician — Medical Advisory Team for Summus Global Health
Michele Heisler, Kutsche Memorial Research Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Michele Manos, Retired Virologist, Epidemiologist
Michelle Orengo-McFarlane , MD, Contra Costa Health
Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AVAC
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCSF
Monique Baumont, Research Scientist, NYC Health Department
Murray Penner, Retired
Naimah Oneal, Ryan White Part A Social Worker
Naomi Braine, PhD, Professor of Sociology, City University of NY
Naomi Rosenberg, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Tufts University
Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD
Noel Brewer, Former ACIP member
Nuria Homedes, MD, DrPH, retired
Pantea Javidan, Faculty, Stanford University, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
Patricia Blochowiak, East Cleveland City Council Member, Retired Family Physician
Patrick Sullivan , Professor, Emory University
Paula Braveman, MDMPH, Professor emeritus of Family and Community Medicine, University of CA, San Francisco
Peter Davidson Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego
Peter Santogade, MD, Gastroenterologist, Marshfield Clinic, WI
Peter Small, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Hyfe
Peter Staley, AIDS Activist
Phyra McCandless, Attorney, JD, MPH
Rabi Yunusa, MD, MPH
Rachel Berkowitz, Senior Research & Evaluation Specialist, County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services Department
Rachel Rubin, MD, MPH Chicago
Raechel Ferry-Rooney DNP APRN-ANP, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Assistant Professor, Rush University
Ramona Hunter, Registered Nurse Faculty / RUMC
Randall Cottrell, Emeritus Professor
Randy Mayer, Public Health, retired, Iowa
Raphael Clynes, MD, PhD, Physician Scientist/Clinical Immunology
Raven Williams , Public Health Specialist
Reshma Ramachandran, MD, MPP, MHS, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Rev. Brittney Lane, Presbyterian Church USA Pastor
Richard M. Rose, M.D., Medical Doctor, former Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Robert Dubrow, Professor Emeritus, Yale School of Public Health
Robert Heimer, Professor of Epidemiology, Yale School of Public
Robin Harris, Professor Emerita, University of Arizona
Robin Simon, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Wake Forest University
Ronald Epstein, MD, Professor of Family Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center
Dr. Ronen Marmorstein, University of Pennsylvania
Roni Diamant-Wilson, PhD, RN, MSW
Rosa Lafer-Sousa, University of Wisconsin Madison; NIH
Rose Milano, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Assistant Professor / RUsh UNiversity
Roxane Scherek, MPH, Health Professions Education Specialist, UCSF
Ruth Mabry, Global health consultant
Ruvandhi Nathavitharana MD MPH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sally Freels, Associate Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sally Lemke, Assistant professor, Rush University
Sam Friedman, Professor of Population Health
Samantha Luffy, MPH, Public Health and Human Rights Researcher
Samantha Schild, MPH Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
Samuel Bagenstos, Professor, University of Michigan; former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Sarah Gollust, Professor, University of Minnesota
Sarah Kureshi, Professor and Family Medicine Physician
Sarah Riley, MD, Assistant Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
Scott Hartman, MD, Physician, University of Rochester Medical Center
Sean McCormick, Public Health Attorney
Shane Solger, MD, Emergency Medicine Doctor
Sharon Schwartz, Professor of Epidemiology, MSPH Columbia University
Sharonann Lynch, Co-director, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics, Georgetown University
Shawna Hebert, Assistant Professor in Nursing – Rush University College of Nursing
Sherrill Adams, Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania
Son Mun, MD, Retired
Stephanie James, PHD, MBA, Associate Dean, Regis University Reuckert-Hartman College for Health Professions
Stephanie Smith, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Supriya Misra, Assistant Professor of Public Health, San Francisco State University
Susan Altfeld, PhD, retired
Susan Bell, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Drexel University
Susan Buchbinder, Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, UCSF
Susan Fish, Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Susan Gunn, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Susan Reverby, Professor Emerita Wellesley College
Susan Swider, Professor, Rush University College of Nursing
Susana Fried, Co-director, Just Futures Collaborative
Tamara Rissman, Epidemiologist 3, CT Emerging Infections Program
Tess Olsson, Research Manager
The Rev. Laura Minnich Lockey, Priest, Episcopal Church
The Rev. Martha Dooley, Deacon, Deacon, The Episcopal Church. Retired Nurse, RN, MSN
The Rev. Shea Godwin, Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
The Very Rev. Kathleen Murray, Priest, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
Therese McGinn, Professor Emerita, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Thomas Gould, Communications Manager at Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Thomas Higgins , Co-founder For Our Health
Thomas L. Campbell MD , Professor Emeritus, University of Rochester School of Medicine
Timothy Frasca, retired, NYPAN
Tori Votaw, Clinician Investigator, McLean Hospital
Tracy Rabin, Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Trude Bennett, Emerita faculty, UNC-CH SPH
Vincent M. B. Silenzio, MD, MPH, Professor of Urban-Global Public Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers University
Walter Orenstein, Professor Emeritus, Emory University
Wendy Bostwick, Phd, MPH, Associate Professor, Population Health Nursing Science, University of Illinois Chicago
Wendy Chavkin MD, MPH, Professor emerita Public Health and OBstetrics Gynecology, Columbia U
Wendy Leonard, MD, Physician, co-CEO TIP Global Health
Whitney Thurman, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
William Watson, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center
Yuliya Gatina, Physician
Zenobia Harris, Board Member, Association of Public Health Nurses