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APHA Past Presidents

Year
City, State
2024 Ella Greene-Moton Flint, Michigan
2023 Chris Chanyasulkit, PhD, MPH Brookline, MA
2022 Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN Terry, Mississippi
2021  José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA
Evanston, Illinois
2020 Lisa Carlson, MPH, MCHES Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Pamela M. Aaltonen, PhD, RN West Lafayette, Indiana
2018 Joseph Telfair, DrPH, MSW, MPH Statesboro, Georgia
2017 Thomas C. Quade, MPH, MA Akron, Ohio
2016 Camara P. Jones, MD, PhD, MPH Atlanta, Georgia
2015 Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014 Joyce Gaufin, BS Dammeron Valley, Utah
2013 Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, MA Tampa, Florida
2012 Mel Shipp, OD, DrPH, MPH Columbus, Ohio
2011 Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH Chicago, Illinois
2010 Carmen Nevarez, MD, MPH Oakland, California
2009 Cheryl E. Easley, PhD, RN Anchorage, Alaska
2008 Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN New Haven, Connecticut
2007 Deborah Klein Walker, EdM, EdD Cambridge, Massachusetts
2006 Pat Mail, PhD, MPH Tacoma, Washington
2005 Walter Tsou, MD, MPH Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 Virginia A. Caine, MD Indianapolis, Indiana
2003 Jay Glasser, PhD Houston, Texas
2002 Faye Wong, MPH Atlanta, Georgia
2001 Michael Bird, MSW, MPH Albuquerque, New Mexico
2000 Carol Easley Allen, PhD, RN, PHN Huntsville, Alabama 
1999 Audrey Gotsch, DRPH, CHES, MPH Piscataway, New Jersey
1998 Quentin D. Young, MD, MS Chicago, Illinois
1997 Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH Sherborn, Massachusetts
1996 E. Richard Brown, PhD Los Angeles, California
1995 A. Caswell Evans, Jr., DDS, MPH Los Angeles, California
1994 Eugene Feingold, PhD Ann Arbor, Michigan
1993 Helen Rodriguez-Trias, MD, BS New York, New York
1992 Joyce C. Lashof, MD Berkeley, California
1991 C. William Keck, MD Akron, Ohio
1990 Myron Allukian, Jr., DDS, MPH Boston, Massachusetts
1989 Iris Shannon, PhD, RN Chicago, Illinois
1988 Bailus Walker, Jr., PhD, MPH Boston, Massachusetts
1987 Ruth Roemer, JD Los Angeles, California
1986 William H. Foege, MD, MPH Atlanta, Georgia
1985 Victor W. Sidel, MD New York, New York
1984 Susan S. Addiss, MPH, MURS Hartford, Connecticut
1983 Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA Washington, D.C.
1982 Stanley J. Matek, MS Tustin, California
1981 Larry J. Gordon, MS, MPH Albuquerque, New Mexico
1980 June Jackson Christmas, MD New York, New York
1979 John H. Romani, PhD Ann Arbor, Michigan
1978 E. Frank Ellis, MD, MPH Chicago, Illinois
1977 George E. Pickett, MD, MPH San Mateo, California
1976 Morton S. Hilbert, MPH, CE Ann Arbor, Michigan
1975 C. Arden Miller, MD Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1974 Lorin E. Kerr, MD, MSPH Washington, D.C.
1973 Margaret B. Dolan, RN Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1972 Myron F. Wegman, MD Ann Arbor, Michigan
1971 P. Walton Purdom, PhD Ann Arbor, Michigan
1970 Paul B. Cornely, MD Washington, D.C.
1969 Lester J. Breslow, MD Los Angeles, California
1968 John J. Hanlon, MD Detroit, Michigan
1967 Milton Terris, MD New York, New York
1966 Ernest L. Stebbins, MD Baltimore, Maryland
1965; DwightF.Metzler, CE; Albany, New York
1964  John D. Porterfield, MD& Chicago, Illinois
1963 J.W.R. Norton, MD Raleigh, North Carolina
1962 Charles Glen King, PhD Scarsdale, New York
1961 Marion Sheahan, RN Albany, New York
1960 Malcolm H. Merrill, MD Berkeley, California
1959 Leona Baumgartner, MD New York, New York
1958; Roy J. Morton, CE Oak Ridge, Tennessee
1957 John W. Knutson, DDS Washington, D.C.
1956 Ira V. Hiscock, SeD New Haven, Connecticut
1955 Herman E. Hilleboe, MD Albany, New York
1954 Hugh R. Leavell, MD Boston, Massachusetts
1953 Wilton L. Halverson, MD San Fransisco, California
1952 Gaylord W. Anderson, MD Minneapolis, Minnesota
1951 William P. Shepard, MD San Fransisco, California
1950 Lowel lJ. Reed, PhD Baltimore, Maryland
1949 Charles F. Wilinsky, MD Boston, Massachusetts
1948 Martha M. Eliot, MD Washington, D.C.
1947 Harry S. Mustard, MD New York, New York
1946 John J. Sippy, MD Stockton, California
1945 John J. Sippy, MD Stockton, California
1944 Felix J. Underwood, MD Jackson, Mississippi
1943  Allen W. Freeman, MD  Baltimore, Maryland 
1942  John L. Rice,MD  New York, New York
1941  W.S. Leathers, MD  Nashville, Tennessee 
1940 Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., MD Albany, New York
1939 Abel Wolman, Dr.Eng Baltimore, Maryland
1938 Arthur T. McCormack, MD Louisville, Kentucky
1937 Thomas Parran, MD Albany, New York
1936 Walter H. Brown, MD Palo Alto, California
1935 Eugene L. Bishop, MD Nashville, Tennessee
1934 Haven Emerson, MD New York, New York
1933 John A. Ferrell, MD New York, New York
1932 Louis I. Dublin, PhD New York, New York
1931 Hugh S. Cumming, MD Washington, D.C.
1930 A.J. Chesley, MD St. Paul, Minnesota
1929 George W. Fuller New York, New York
1928 Herman H. Bundesen, MD Chicago, Illinois
1927 Charles V. Chapin, MD Providence, Rhode Island
1926 C.-EA. Winslow, DrPH New Haven, Connecticut
1925 Henry F. Vaughan, DrPH Detroit, Michigan
1924 William H. Park, MD New York, New York
1923 E.C. Levy, MD Richmond, Virginia
1922 Allan J. McLaughlin, MD Washington, D.C.
1921 Mazyck P. Ravenel, MD Columbia, Missouri
1920 W. S. Rankin, MD Raleigh, North Carolina
1919 Lee K. Frankel, PhD New York, New York
1918 Charles J. Hastings, MD Toronto, Canada
1917 W.A.Evans, MD Chicago, Illinois
1916 John F. Anderson, MD Washington, D.C.
1915 William T. Sedgwick, ScD Boston, Massachusetts
1914 W.C.Woodward, MD Washington, D.C.
1913 Rudolph Hering, ScD New York, New York
1912 J.N. Hurty, MD Indianapolis, Indiana
1911 Robert M. Simpson, MD Winnipeg, Canada
1910 Charles O. Probst, MD Columbus, Ohio
1909 Gardner T. Swarts, MD Providence, Rhode Island
1908 Richard H. Lewis, MD Raleigh, North Carolina
1907 Domingo Orvananos, MD Mexico City, Mexico
1906 Franklin C. Robinson, LLD Brunswick, Minnesota
1905 Frank F. Wesbrook, MD Minneapolis, Minnesota
1904 Carlos J. Finlay, MD; Havana, Cuba
1903 Walter Wyman, MD Washington, D.C.
1902 Henry D. Holton, MD Brattleboro, Vermont
1901 Benjamin Lee, MD Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1900 Peter H.Bryce, MD Toronto, Canada
1899 George H. Rohe, MD Deceased Feb 6, 1899 Sykesville, Maryland
1899 Henry Mitchell, MD Trenton, New Jersey
1898 Charles A. Lindsley, MD New Haven, Connecticut
1897 Henry B. Horlbeck, MD Charleston, South Carolina&
1896 Eduardo Liceaga, MD Mexico City, Mexico
1895 William Bailey, MD Louisville, Kentucky
1894 Persiller-Lachapelle, MD Montreal, Canada
1893 Samuel H. Durgin, MD Boston, Massachusetts
1892 Felix Formento, MD New Orleans, Louisiana
1891 Frederick Montizambert, MD Quebec, Canada
1890 Henry B. Baker, MD Lansing, Michigan;
1889 Hosmer A Johnson, MD Chicago, Illinois
1888 Charles N. Hewitt, MD Red Wing, Minnesota
1887 George M. Sternberg, MD Washington, D.C.
1886 Henry P. Walcott, MD Cambridge, Massachusetts
1885 James E. Reeves, MD Wheeling, West Virginia;
1884 Albert L. Gihon, MD Washington, D.C.
1883 Ezra M. Hunt, MD Trenton, New Jersey
1882 Robert C. Kedzie, MD Lansing, Michigan
1881 Charles B.White, MD New Orleans, Louisiana
1880 John Shaw Billings, MD Washington, D.C.
1879 James Lawrence Cabell, MD Charlottesville, Virginia
1878 Elisha Harris, MD New York, New York
1877 John Henry Rauch, MD Springfield, Illinois
1876 Edwin M. Snow, MD Providence, Rhode Island
1875 Joseph M. Toner, MD Washington, D.C.
1874 Stephen Smith, MD New York, New York
1873 Stephen Smith, MD New York, New York
1872 Stephen Smith, MD New York, New York