Susan Blumenthal

Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, M.D. (born 1951) is an American physician, global health expert, psychiatrist and public health advocate. With more than two decades of service as a senior government health leader in the administrations of four U.S. presidents, Rear Admiral 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. 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. Dr. Blumenthal is currently 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. Blumenthal is the Public Health Editor of the Huffington Post.

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