Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author. He is the Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health, the Eugene S. and Constance Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health, and vice provost of interdisciplinary initiatives at Washington University in St. Louis. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Boston University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He also serves as editor-in-chief of JAMA Health Forum, a pre-eminent health policy journal.

Galea serves frequently on advisory groups to national and global organizations. He has co-authored prominent reports from the U.S. Surgeon General, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, among others. He previously served as chair of the Boston Board of Health, and of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Community Services Board. He is past board chair of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science.

Galea is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received several lifetime achievement awards. He earned his medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

A noted science communicator, Galea has published 25 books and writes weekly for a Substack he created called “The Healthiest Goldfish.” There, he writes about the foundational forces that shape public health. His public writing and other works are summarized at www.sandrogalea.org.