head of department Alexander H. Leighton, psychiatric epidemiologist Richard Levins, ecologist and mathematical biologist Xihong Lin, biostatistician and mathematician, 2006 COPPS presidents' award recipient Jun S. Liu, biostatistician and mathematician, 2002 COPPS presidents' award recipient Bernard Lown, co-founded the Nobel Prize-winning group Physicians for Social Responsibility; founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation Adetokunbo Lucas, former director of Tropical Diseases Research at the World Health Organization (WHO) Brian MacMahon, cancer epidemiologist Sezan Mahmud, Writer and university professor Christopher Murray, physician and health economist Joseph Newhouse, economist and director of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment Shuji Ogino, pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of New England Journal of Medicine James Robins, epidemiologist and biostatistician Pardis Sabeti, computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel laureate in Economics Gita Sen, feminist scholar and specialist in international population policy Frank E. Speizer, physician and epidemiologist Andrew Spielman, public health entomologist Frederick J. Stare, controversial chair of Nutrition Institute James H. Ware, biostatistician Thomas Huckle Weller, Nobel laureate in Physiology and Medicine George C. Whipple, cofounder of School in 1922 Walter Willett, physician and nutrition researcher Notable alumni There are over 13,484 alumni. Anthony Irvine Adams, 2001 Alumni Award of Merit for a distinguished service in public health practice James B. Aguayo-Martel, pioneer in ophthalmology Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, former Director-General of the World Health Organization Nadine Burke Harris, pediatrician and first Surgeon General of California Eli Capilouto, twelfth president of the University of Kentucky William Foege, MPH 1965, physician, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mandy Cohen, physician, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Humayun Chaudhry, President and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards Winston Dang, head of Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration from 2004 to 2008 Jonathan Fielding, Director Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, editor in chief of the Annual Review of Public Health Janina R. Galler, PI and Director of 45+-year Barbados Nutrition Study in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas, a longitudinal study showing the intergenerational legacy of poverty and disadvantage from childhood malnutrition. Steven K. Galson, former Acting Surgeon General of the United States Atul Gawande, surgical safety pioneer, MacArthur Fellow, Rhodes Scholar Sue Goldie, MacArthur Fellow and decision scientist Timothy Johnson, chief medical correspondent for ABC News Karl Lauterbach, German politician (SPD), served as Federal Minister of