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The Milbank Memorial Fund acknowledges with respect and gratitude the service of its leaders since 1905: the founder of the Fund, the presiding officers and members of the Board of Directors, chief executives, and the members of its Technical and Editorial Boards. We list these persons in the role (or roles) they served and under subheads that divide the history of the Fund into periods defined by significant events. These historical periods are:
1905–1920 Founding the Fund and Articulating Its Mission
1921–1935 The Fund’s Innovative Program and Publications and Growing Reputation
1936–1960 The Fund Is Stable and Respected and Maintains Its Founding Mission
1961–1989 The Fund Retreats from Informing Policy but Has Influential Fellowship Programs and the Repute of The Milbank Quarterly Increases
1990–2022 Return to the Mission of Informing Health Policy While Maintaining Excellence in Publications
Note that (1) leaders whose service spanned more than one historical period are listed in the period of their appointment but with their complete years of service; and (2) because the titles of presiding officers of the Board and of chief executives have evolved, each of them is listed with his or her title at the time of appointment.
Elizabeth Milbank Anderson Philanthropist
1905–1920 Edward W. Sheldon, 1905–1929 President
1921–1935 Albert G. Milbank, 1929–1949 President
1936–1960 Morris Hadley, 1949–1952 President
Samuel R. Milbank, 1952–1984 President, 1952–1955 Chairman, 1956–1984
1961–1989 Francis H. Musselman, 1985–1989 Chairman
1990–2022 Samuel L. Milbank, 1990–2022 Chairman
2022–
John M. Colmers, 2022– Chair
1921–1935 John A. Kingsbury, 1922–1935 Secretary
Edgar Sydenstricker, 1935–1936 Scientific Director
1936–1960 Frank G. Boudreau, MD, 1937–1962 Executive Director, 1937–1955 President, 1956–1962
1961–1989 Alexander Robertson, 1962–1969 Executive Director
Leroy E. Burney, MD, 1970–1977 Executive Director, 1970–1971 President, 1971–1977
Robert H. Ebert, MD, 1978–1984; 1988–1989 President
Sidney S. Lee, MD, 1985–1988 President
1990–2022 Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1990–2007 President
Carmen Hooker Odom, 2007–2013 President
John R. Ball, MD, JD, 2013 Interim President
Christopher F. Koller, 2013– President
Members of the Board of Directors are listed alphabetically within each time period. Their titles and affiliations at the time of their appointment and later in their service to the Fund are also listed if they are available in the records of the Fund or by searching the Internet.
1905–1920 Charles M. Cauldwell, MD, 1914–1928
Francis B. Kinnicut, MD, 1905–1913 Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University
Albert G. Milbank, 1905–1949 Partner, Masten & Nichols; Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb; Chairman of the Board, Borden Condensed Milk Company
Albert J. Milbank, 1907–1912 Treasurer, Borden Condensed Milk Company
John G. Milburn, 1920–1930 Lawyer, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn
George L. Nichols, 1905–1930 Lawyer, Masten & Nichols
Edward W. Sheldon, 1905–1934 President, U.S. Trust Company
Howard Townsend, 1905–1920 President, New York State Hospital for Consumptives
1921–1935 James G. Affleck, Jr., 1935–1937; 1947–1966 Lawyer, Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb
Chellis A. Austin, 1928–1929 President, Seaboard National Bank
Cornelius N. Bliss, 1930–1949 Director, Bliss, Fabyan & Co.; President, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Thomas Cochran, 1921–1936 Partner, J.P. Morgan Co.
Livingston Farrand, MD, 1934–1939 President, Cornell University
Barklie M. Henry, 1934–1963 Director (retired), Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
John A. Kingsbury, 1934–1935 Secretary, Milbank Memorial Fund
Franklin B. Kirkbride, 1934–1955 Investment Counsel
Samuel R. Milbank, 1934–1985 Partner, Wood, Struthers & Winthrop; President, Pine Street Fund
Roland S. Morris, 1930–1945 Lawyer, Duane, Morris & Heckscher
Frank L. Polk, 1930–1943 Lawyer, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Elihu Root, 1921–1930 Secretary of War (under William McKinley); Secretary of State (under Theodore Roosevelt)
Linsly R. Williams, MD, 1930–1934 Managing Director, New York Academy of Medicine
1936–1960 George Baehr, MD, 1946–1978 Chief of First Medical Service, Mount Sinai Hospital; Founder then President and Medical Director, Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr., 1949–1974 Wood, Struthers & Winthrop
Frank G. Boudreau, MD, 1956–1962 Executive Director then President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Dean A. Clark, MD, 1956–1962 Director, Massachusetts General Hospital
Morris Hadley, 1937–1965 Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Frederick H. Osborn, 1946–1963 Treasurer, American Eugenics Society
Beekman Hoppin Pool, 1937–1942 New York State Charities Aid Association
Charles E. Saltzman, 1950–1979 Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
George A. Sloan, 1943–1955 President, The Nutrition Foundation
1961–1989 Leroy E. Burney, MD, 1966–1991 Vice President for Health Sciences at Temple University; Executive Director then President, Milbank Memorial Fund
John T. Dunlop, PhD, 1979–1983 Lamont University Professor, Harvard University
Robert H. Ebert, MD, 1972–1985; 1988–1996 Dean, Harvard Medical School; President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Rashi Fein, PhD, 1987–1990 Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Alexander D. Forger, 1965–1987 Lawyer, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Ellen V. Futter, 1982–1989 President, Barnard College
Peter M. Gottsegen, 1987–2022 Partner, Salomon Brothers; Founding Partner, CAI Managers & Co., LP
Thomas Harvey, 1989–2017 Deputy Administrator, Veterans Administration; General Counsel, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs; Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
John W. Hennessy, Jr., PhD, 1983–1988 Charles Henry Jones Professor of Management and Dartmouth Third Century Chair, Dartmouth University
C. Glen King, PhD, 1963–1972 President, The Nutrition Foundation
Sidney S. Lee, MD, 1985–1988 President, Milbank Memorial Fund
R. Bruce McBratney, 1964–1983 Wood, Struthers & Winthrop
Jeremiah Milbank, Jr., 1989–1994 President, The J.M. Foundation
Samuel L. Milbank, 1974–2022 Director, Salomon Brothers; Partner, Milbank Capital Management, LLC
Francis H. Musselman, 1962–1994 Lawyer, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Thomas I. Parkinson, Jr., 1962–1985 Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, 1987–2017 Professor and Chair, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania; DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College
Alan T. Wenzell, 1987–2001 Executive Vice President (retired), Paine Webber
1990–2022 John R. Ball, MD, JD, 1992–2017 Executive Vice President, American College of Physicians; President, Pennsylvania Hospital; Executive Vice President, American Society for Clinical Pathology; Executive Vice President Emeritus, American College of Physicians; Interim President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Carolyn C. Clark, 1996–2021 Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Ronald J. Clark, PhD, 2016–2022 Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate, Department of Homeland Security
Paul D. Cleary, PhD, 2013– Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health and Dean, Yale School of Public Health
John M. Colmers, 2013– Vice President, Health Care Transformation and Strategic Planning, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Linda V. DeCherrie, MD, 2017– Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai
Peter Donnelly, MD, 2015– President and Chief Executive Officer, Public Health Ontario
Danielle G. Dooley, MD, 2010– Pediatrician, Unity Health Care, Inc.
Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1990–2007 President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Sherry Glied, PhD, 2015– Dean, New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Francisco R.A. Gros, 1995–1998 Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Robert E. Harvey, 2010– Senior Vice President and Director, The Ashforth Company
Robert F. Hoerle, 2003–2022 Consultant, Reich and Tang, Inc.; Managing Partner, Stone Run Capital, LLC
Clarion E. Johnson, MD, 2003– Global Medical Director, ExxonMobil Corporation
Byron Knief, 1999–2015 President, Citicorp Capital Investors, Ltd; Managing Director, Court Square Advisor, LLC
Christopher F. Koller, 2013– President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Carolyn Boone Lewis, 1998–2002 Immediate Past Chair and Trustee, Greater Southeast Healthcare System; Assistant Director, Division of Investment Management, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Chair, American Hospital Association
Harry A. Nurkin, 2008–2011 Owner and Senior Consultant, Nurkin Associates, Inc.
Carmen Hooker Odom, 2001–2013 Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Margaret E. O’Kane, 2010– President, National Committee for Quality Assurance
Louisa J. Palmer, 1999–2018 Director, Ernst & Young, LLP
Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, PhD, 2016– Vice President of Education, Insight Policy Research
William L. Roper, 1995–1998 Senior Vice President, Prudential HealthCare; Dean, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
Carl J. Schramm, PhD, 1991–2007 President, Health Insurance Association of America; Executive Vice President, Fortis, Inc; Founder and President, Greenspring Advisors, Inc.; Director, ILM II Senior Living, Inc.; President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
John D. Stoeckle, 1991–2007 Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Primary Care Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph M. Sullivan, 1998–2013 Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Brooklyn
Carll Tucker, 2001–2019 Founding Chairman, Northern Westchester Hospital Center Foundation; Founder and Chair, Daily Voice
Arthur Y. Webb, 2010–2021 Chief Operating Officer, St. Vincent’s Hospital; Owner and Principal, ArthurWebbGroup, Ltd.
Please see the Board of Directors page for the current list of board members.
The Technical Board, established in 1922, initially advised the staff and the Board about projects in two cities and a mainly rural county in New York State. These projects demonstrated how recent scientific findings about preventing and treating disease could be applied by public health agencies and their allies in philanthropy. The members of the Technical Board since its inception have been distinguished researchers, clinicians, and policymakers and have guided and advised the President and Board of Directors on issues and trends in health systems and population health. They are listed alphabetically within each time period. Their titles and affiliations at the time of their appointment as well as during their service to the Fund are also listed if they are available in the records of the Fund or by searching the Internet.
1922–1935 Herman H. Biggs, MD, 1922–1923 Commissioner of Health, New York State
Bailey B. Burritt, 1922–1946 General Director, Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Livingston Farrand, MD, 1922–1939 President, Cornell University
Homer Folks, 1922–1946 Secretary, New York State Charities Aid Association
James A. Miller, MD, 1922–1947 President, New York Tuberculosis Association
Matthias Nicoll, Jr., MD, 1923–1930 Commissioner of Health, New York State
Thomas Parran, Jr., MD, 1930–1962 Commissioner of Health, New York State; Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service; Dean, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
William H. Welch, MD, 1922–1934 Dean, School of Medicine; Dean, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Linsly R. Williams, MD, 1922–1934 Managing Director, National Tuberculosis Association; Managing Director, New York Academy of Medicine
John H. Wyckoff, MD, 1934–1937 Dean, School of Medicine, New York University
Shirley W. Wynne, MD, 1932–1933 Commissioner of Health, New York City
1936–1960 George Baehr, MD, 1937–1978 Chief of First Medical Service, Mount Sinai Hospital; Founder then President and Medical Director, Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York
Leroy E. Burney, MD, 1956–1985 Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service; Executive Director then President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Rowland Burnstan, PhD, 1947–1950 Secretary, New York State Charities Aid Association
Dean A. Clark, MD, 1946–1963 Director, Massachusetts General Hospital
Wade Hampton Frost, MD, 1936–1938 Professor of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Edward Godfrey, Jr., MD, 1941–1947 Commissioner of Health, New York State
Herman E. Hilleboe, MD, 1948–1969 Commissioner of Health, New York State
Paul H. Hoch, MD, 1956–1963 Commissioner, New York State Department of Mental Health
Robert C. Hunt, MD, 1959–1963 Assistant Commissioner, New York State Community Mental Health Services
Rustin McIntosh, MD, 1956–1976 Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Harry S. Mustard, MD, 1947–1955 Commissioner of Health, New York City
Lowell J. Reed, PhD, 1936–1966 Professor of Biostatistics then President, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas A.C. Rennie, MD, 1955–1956 Director, National Association for Mental Health
Leonard A. Scheele, MD, 1949–1956 Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service
Ernest L. Stebbins, MD, 1945–1946 Commissioner of Health, New York City
C.-E.A. Winslow, DSc, 1944–1947; 1951–1957 Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
1961–1989 Lawrence K. Altman, MD, 1981–1985 Staff Medical Correspondent, The New York Times
Charles B. Arnold, MD, 1986–1989 Medical Director, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Nicholas Ashford, PhD, 1986–1989 Associate Professor of Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maurice E. Beckett, MD, 1967–1971 Professor, Department of Community Health, University of Nottingham
Samuel W. Bloom, PhD, 1967–1971 Professor of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Frank G. Boudreau, MD, 1962–1970 President (retired), Milbank Memorial Fund
Howard J. Brown, MD, 1966–1968 Health Services Administrator, Commissioner of Health, New York City
Eveline M. Burns, MD, 1971–1973 Professor Emeritus, New York School of Social Work, Columbia University
Thomas C. Chalmers, MD, 1982–1985 Dean and President, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Theodore Cooper, MD, 1979–1982 Dean, Provost for Medical Affairs, Cornell University Medical College
Molly Joel Coye, MD, 1986–1989; 1991–1995 Commissioner of Health, New Jersey Department of Health; Senior Vice President for Health Systems Development, Health Dimensions, Inc.
Paul M. Densen, DSc, 1965–1970 Deputy Commissioner of Health, New York City; Director, Center for Community Health and Medical Care, Harvard Medical School
Kurt W. Deuschle, MD, 1969–1974 Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
John T. Dunlop, PhD, 1977–1985 Lamont University Professor, Harvard University
Robert H. Ebert, MD, 1966–1985; 1989–1990 Dean, Harvard Medical School; President, Milbank Memorial Fund
Jack Elinson, PhD, 1966–1970 Professor of Administrative Medicine, Columbia University School of Public Health
Rashi Fein, PhD, 1975–1978; 1986–1990 Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1989–1990 Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Renee C. Fox, PhD, 1979–1985 Professor of Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Eli Ginzberg, PhD, 1989–1990 Professor of Economics, Columbia Business School; Director, Conservation of Human Resources Project, Columbia Business School
Ernest M. Gruenberg, MD, 1963–1968; 1977–1982 Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Professor and Chairman, Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University
James G. Haughton, MD, 1971–1972 Executive Director, Cook County Hospital, Chicago
John Hennessey, Jr., PhD, 1983–1985 Professor, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College; Chairman, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Abraham Horwitz, MD, 1963–1975 Director, Pan American Health Organization
Avra D. Jackson, 1973–1975 Regional Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Philadelphia
Judith Miller Jones, 1982–1985; 1989–1990 Director, National Health Policy Forum
C. Glen King, PhD, 1963–1972 President, The Nutrition Foundation; Associate Director, Institute of Nutrition Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, 1986–1989 Professor and Director, Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Joshua Lederberg, PhD, 1979–1985 President, The Rockefeller University
Colin H. MacLeod, MD, 1963–1966 Deputy Director, Office of Science and Technology, Office of the President, U.S.A.
J. Wendell MacLeod, MD, 1963–1971 Executive Director, The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges
Paul A. Marks, MD, 1978–1985 Vice President for Health Sciences, Columbia University; President and Chief Executive Officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Jeffrey C. Merrill, PhD, 1989–1990 Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Frederick Mosteller, PhD, 1978–1985 Professor and Chairman, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Howard Newman, JD, 1974–1977 President, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Anthony M.-M. Payne, MD, 1965–1970 Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University
Edward B. Perrin, PhD, 1974–1976 Director, National Center for Health Statistics, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Nora K. Piore, 1977–1978 Professor of Public Health Economics, Columbia University; Associate Director, Center for Community Health Systems, Columbia University
Dorothy P. Rice, DSc, 1975–1982 Director, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Public Health Service
Ray C. Rist, PhD, 1989–1992 Director of Operations, General Government Division, U.S. General Accounting Office
Anthony Robins, MD, 1986–1989 Professor of Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine
Geoffrey Rose, DM, 1978–1985 Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
Gerald Rosenthal, PhD, 1986–1989 Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Hahnemann University
Paul J. Sanazaro, MD, 1971–1972 Director, National Center for Health Services Research Development, Health Services & Mental Health Administration
Ernest W. Saward, MD, 1971–1978 Professor of Social Medicine, Associate Dean of Extramural Affairs, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester
Alvin L. Schorr, 1971–1977 General Director, Community Service Society, New York
Mack I. Shanholtz, MD, 1973–1975 Commissioner of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia
Robert M. Sigmond, 1973–1976 Executive Vice President, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
George A. Silver, MD, 1963–1975 Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
Herman M. Somers, PhD, 1971–1978 Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Nathan J. Stark, JD, 1975–1978 Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, 1975–1976; 1986–1990 Professor of Public Health, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University; Professor and Chair, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
William H. Stewart, MD, 1965–1969 Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service
Laurence Tancredi, MD, 1981–1984; 1989–1990 Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical School
Henry van Zile Hyde, MD, 1963–1966 Director, Division of International Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges
Herman B. Wells, LLD, 1973–1978 Chancellor, Indiana University
Kerr L. White, MD, 1977–1985 Director, Institute for Health Care Studies of the United Hospital Fund of New York; Deputy Director for Health Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation
David P. Willis, 1989–1990 Vice President, Milbank Memorial Fund; Editor, The Milbank Quarterly
1990– Linda H. Aiken, PhD, 1991–1995 Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Brian Atchinson, JD, 1999–2001 Second Vice President, External Affairs, UNUM
John R. Ball, MD, JD, 1991–1993 Executive Vice President, American College of Physicians
Raymond J. Baxter, PhD, 2009–2011 Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
Clyde J. Behney, 1998–2000 Deputy Executive Officer, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine
Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, 2000–2002 Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
Carmen Hooker Buell, 1997–1999 Group Vice President for Government Relations, Carolinas HealthCare Systems
Christine K. Cassel, MD, 1995–1997 George M. Isenberg Professor in Geriatrics, and Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center; Chair, Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Helen Darling, 2002–2004 President, Washington Business Group on Health
Patricia Day, 1996–1999 Senior Research Officer, School of Social Sciences, University of Bath
Leah Devlin, DDS, 2011–2013 Visiting Professor, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
L. Allen Dobson, Jr., MD, 2008–2010 President and Chief Executive Officer, Cabarrus Family Medicine; President and Chief Executive Officer, Community Care of North Carolina
Peter Donnelly, MD, 2009–2014 Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of St. Andrews
Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, 1998–2000 President, Jewish Healthcare Foundation
Kathleen M. Foley, MD, 2006–2008 Attending Neurologist, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Director, Project on Death in America, Open Society Institute
Mark Gibson, 2003 Policy Advisor for Health Care, Human Services and Labor, Office of the Governor of Oregon; Deputy Director, Center for Evidence-based Policy, Oregon Health and Science University
Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD, 2001–2003 Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Georgetown University Law Center
Jessie C. Gruman, PhD, 2007–2009 President, Center for the Advancement of Health
Paul Harrington, 2000–2002 Health Policy Director, Majority Staff, U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
Roger Herdman, MD, 1992–1996 Director, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress
Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, 2004–2006 Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John Iglehart, 1993–1995 Editor, Health Affairs
Clarion E. Johnson, MD, 2002–2003 Director, Medicine and Occupational Health, ExxonMobil Corporation
Craig Jones, MD, 2011–2013 Director, Vermont Blueprint for Health
James R. Knickman, PhD, 2007–2009 President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York State Health Foundation
Mary Grace Kovar, DrPH, 1996–1998 Senior Health Scientist, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD, 2004–2006 President and Chief Executive Officer, ECRI
John M. Ludden, MD, 1995–1997 Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs, Harvard Community Health Plan
Joanne Lynn, MD, 2001–2003 Director, Center to Improve Care for the Dying, RAND
John E. McDonough, DrPH, 2003–2005 Executive Director, Health Care for All
Velvet G. Miller, PhD, 1999–2001 Executive Director, Children’s Futures
Dolores L. Mitchell, 2010–2012 Executive Director, Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission
James M. Perrin, MD, 1991–1992 Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Ambulatory Care Programs and General Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Denis Prager, PhD, 1992–1994 Director, Health Program, MacArthur Foundation
James C. Robinson, PhD, 1991–1993 Assistant Professor of Health Economics, University of California
William L. Roper, MD, 1994–1995 President, Prudential Center for Health Care Research
Mark L. Rosenberg, MD, 2010–2012 President and Chief Executive Officer, The Task Force for Global Health
Louise Russell, PhD, 1993–1995 Research Professor, Institute of Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Nelson J. Sabatini, 2006–2008 Secretary (retired), Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
John M. Selig, 2012–2014 Director, Arkansas Department of Human Services
Robyn I. Stone, DrPH, 2003–2005 Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Peter Tugwell, MD, 2005–2007 Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa; Director, Centre for Global Health, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa
Sean Tunis, MD, 2004–2007 Senior Fellow, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Martin Wasserman, MD, 1996–1998 Secretary, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Maxine Aldridge White, JD, 2008–2010 Presiding Judge, Family Division, Milwaukee County Circuit Court
The Fund established an Editorial Board for The Milbank Quarterly in 1973. Prior to that staff and members of the Technical Board had served as advisors to the journal that evolved into the Quarterly since its inception in 1923. Members of the formal Editorial Board are listed alphabetically; their titles and affiliations at the time of their appointment as well as during their service to the Fund are also listed if they are identified in the records of the Fund or by Internet search. See our current list of Editorial Advisory Board Members.
1973–1989 E. Maurice Backett, 1975–1976 Professor, Department of Community Health, Medical School, University of Nottingham
Ronald Bayer, PhD, 1989– Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Robert J. Blendon, ScD, 1977–1986 Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Lawrence D. Brown, PhD, 1982–1984 The Brookings Institution
Rashi Fein, PhD, 1977–1988 Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Daniel M. Fox, PhD, 1987–2000 Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Mary E.W. Goss, PhD, 1973–1976 Associate Professor of Sociology in Medicine, Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College
Ernest M. Gruenberg, MD, 1977–1984 Professor and Chairman, Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University
John K. Iglehart, 1977–1984 Health Policy Journalist
Judith Miller Jones, 1977–2015 Director, National Health Policy Forum
Richard V. Kasius, 1977–1984 Secretary of the Technical Board, Milbank Memorial Fund
Herbert E. Klarman, PhD, 1973–1976 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Public Administration, New York University
Rudolf Klein, 1985–2013 Professor and Head, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath
Philip R. Lee, MD, 1979–1993 Professor of Social Medicine and Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University Of California
Samuel L. Milbank, 1977–1984 Director, Salomon Brothers
Jeremy Morris, MD, 1973–1974 Professor of Social Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
Dorothy Nelkin, 1985–2000 Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
Max Pepper, MD, 1973–1976 Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine
Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD, 1977–2017 James Madison Professor of Political Economy, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Ernest W. Saward, MD, 1973–1976 Professor of Social Medicine, Associate Dean of Extramural Affairs, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester
Thomas C. Schelling, PhD, 1985–1989 Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Department of Economics and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Alvin L. Schorr, 1973–1976 Executive Director, Community Service Society of New York
Carl J. Schramm, PhD, 1985–2013 Professor of Public Health and Director, Center for Hospital Finance and Management, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution; President, Health Insurance Association of America; Executive Vice President, Fortis, Inc; Founder and President, Greenspring Advisors, Inc.; Director, ILM II Senior Living, Inc.; President and Chief Executive Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation; University Professor, Syracuse University
Herman M. Somers, PhD, 1973–1976 Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Selvin Sonken, DDS, 1973–1976 Director, Division of Dental Health, Bureau of Health Manpower Education, National Institutes of Health
Paul E. Starr, PhD, 1985–1989 Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Paul D. Stolley, MD, 1973–1976; 1985–2000 Professor, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Harry Woolf, PhD, 1977–1986 Director, Institute for Advanced Study
Charles R. Wright, PhD, 1973–1976 Professor of Communications and Sociology, The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania
1990– Brian Abel-Smith, PhD, 1990–1996 Professor of Social Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
Mark R. Chassin, MD, 2001–2013 Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai Medical Center; President, The Joint Commission
Susan Dentzer, 2016– President and CEO, The Network For Excellence In Health Innovation
Mary Dixon-Woods, PhD, 2015– RAND Professor of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine
Ruth R. Faden, PhD, 2001–2013 Professor, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director, Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Judith Feder, PhD, 2001–2015 Professor of Public Policy and Director, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, 2013– Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Chief of Pediatrics, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, 2001–2015 Vice President, Association of American Medical Colleges; University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History, George Washington University
Sherry A. Glied, PhD, 2001– Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, 2001– Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities; Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University
Mark A. Hall, JD, 2001– Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law, School of Law, Wake Forest University
Robert E. Hurley, PhD, 2001–2007 Professor, Department of Health Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University
John H. James, 2001–2012 Director, Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority
Arthur Kleinman, MD, 1990–1999 Professor, Departments of Anthropology and of Social Medicine, Harvard University
James R. Knickman, PhD, 2001– Vice President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York State Health Foundation; Derzon Clinical Professor, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, 2001– Director, Center for Research on Quality in Health Care, RAND; Executive Director, Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research, Kaiser Permanente
David Mechanic, PhD, 1993– René Dubos University Professor and Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, 2015– Professor of Law and Professor of Health Research and Policy, Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine
Thomas Rice, PhD, 2001– Distinguished Professor, Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, 2001–2015 Executive Vice President for Programs and Executive Director of the Commission on a High Performance Health System, The Commonwealth Fund; Special Advisor to the President, The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Earl Steinberg, MD, 2001–2013 President and Chief Executive Officer, Resolution Health, Inc.; Executive Vice President for Innovation and Dissemination, Geisinger Health System
Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD, 2001– Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania; DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar, Weill Cornell Medical College
David R. Williams, PhD, 2001–2013 Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan; Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
David Wilsford, PhD, 2001–2015 President, Institute for American Universities; Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University
