Signatories
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ronald R. Blanck, 39th Army Surgeon General of the United States
Donna Shalala, 18th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; Former U.S. Representative for Florida’s 27th district
Tommy G. Thompson, 19th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services; 42nd Governor of Wisconsin
Lt. General (Ret.) Eric Schoomaker, 42nd Army Surgeon General; Former Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command
Fred Upton, Former U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 6th and 4th Districts; Former Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Rear Adm. (Ret) R. Tim Ziemer, Former U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator; Former Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biothreats, U.S. National Security Council
Tom Frieden, Former Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Friedrichs, Former Director, White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
Margaret Hamburg, 21st Commissioner of U.S. Food and Drugs; Former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Health and Human Services
Vice Adm. (Ret.) Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
Tom Inglesby, Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Natsios, 13th Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Gerald Parker, Former Director, White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
Amb. Jimmy Kolker, Former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. Health and Human Services; Former Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Uganda
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Lester Martinez-Lopez, Former Assistant Secretary for Defense for Health Affairs
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Kenneth Bernard, Former Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense; Former Assistant Surgeon General
Georges C. Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer, American Public Health Association
Jack Leslie, Former Chairman, Weber Shandwick
Jeanne Marrazzo, CEO, Infectious Diseases Society of America
Jamie Bay Nishi, CEO, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Karen Goraleski, CEO Emeritus, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Deborah Rosenblum, Former Assistant Secretary for Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs
Seth Berkley, Former CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Founder and Former President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
David Quammen, Author, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Stefano Bertuzzi, CEO, American Society for Microbiology
Gabrielle Fitzgerald, Founder and CEO, Panorama; Co-Founder, Pandemic Action Network
Michael Osterholm, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota
Steve Morrison, Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Ronald T. Piervincenzi, CEO, U.S. Pharmacopeia
Anthony Lakavage, Executive Vice President, Global External Affairs, U.S. Pharmacopeia
Chris Colwell, Vice President, U.S. Pharmacopeia
Heather Anderson, CEO Global Health Corps
Dean Goodermote, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Darcy Abrams, Smile Train
Maria Santiago, Western Governors University
Maria Munoz, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
Jessica Conway, Synergetic
Colin McIff, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetrics, Trauma, and Anesthesia Care
Heather Anderson, CEO, Global Health Corps
Rachel Kreier, St. Joseph’s University
Andrew von Eschenbach, 20th U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drugs; 12th Director, U.S. National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Terrie Taylor, President, American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Rear Adm. (Ret) Kenneth Castro, Former Assistant Surgeon General
Bruce Gellin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS
Achyut KC, Emory University
Sr. Bea Eichten, President, The Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls Minnesota
Rev. Dr. Jennifer Copeland, Executive Director, North Carolina Council of Churches
Lauren Sauer, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Kammerle Schneider, Chief, Global Health Programs, PATH
Michael Merson, School of Global Public Health, New York University; Inaugural Dean, School of Public Health, Yale University
Garrett Grigsby, Former Director of the Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Ana B. Amaya, College of Health Professions, Pace University
Russell J. Andrews, NASA Ames Research Center
Robert Aronson, Messiah University
Helen Arteaga, Deputy Mayor, Health and Human Services, City of New York
Michelle Arteaga, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Bruce Barrett, University of Wisconsin-Madison
John Barry, Historian; Author of The Great Influenza
Rabbi Eliot J. Baskin, Shalom Park Elder Community
Amie Batson, President, WomenLift Health
Joseph Belliveau, Executive Director, MedGlobal
Sara Beste, School of Medicine, Creighton University
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, Chair, Buddhist Global Relief
Jo Ivey Boufford, School of Global Public Health, New York University
Taylor Burkholder, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Donald S. Burke, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
Ricardo Castillo, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Chen, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Venerable Thubten Chodron, Founder and Abbess, Sravasti Abbey
Christopher G. Chute, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Alberto Colorado, Executive Director, Americas TB Coalition; Founder, acTBistas
Timothy Conley, Vice President, MedGlobal
Brian Dawes, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Janet Dewan, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Venerable Ayya Dhammadīpā, Founder and Guiding Teacher, Dassanāya Buddhist Community
Monica Maria Diaz, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jane Drake, University of California, San Francisco
Sean Duffy, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ann Evensen, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lori Garg, Vayu Global Health Foundation
Carlos G. Gartner, Maine Health Institute for Research
Jennifer Gaver, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Kelly Gettig, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Glynn, Mayo Clinic Global Bridges Initiative
Daniel Green, Maimonides Medical Center
Rev. David Gushee, McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University
Christina Holt, University of Kansas
Anneka Hooft, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Linda Kaste, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois Chicago
Katherine Kemper, Global Bridges Healthcare Alliance, Mayo Clinic
Venerable Sangye Khadro, Teacher, Sravasti Abbey, Newport
Jessica Conway, Synergetic
Maria Santiago, Western Governors University
Carolyn Enloe, Carolyn Enloe Consulting
Peter Swenson, Yale University
Mark Harrington, Executive Director, Treatment Action Group
Natalie Sheneman, Interim Executive Director, Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthesia Care (G4 Alliance)
Lisa Hilmi, Executive Director, CORE Group
Karen Gladback, Consultant
Steven Ault, School of Public Health, University of Maryland
Davidson Hamer, School of Public Health, Boston University
Suzanne Marks, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cpt. Gregory Lanman, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Arachu Castro, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
Juliana Klakamp, CEO, Clean Air Institute
Jose Esparza, University of Maryland
Judith Recht, Consultant
Edward Bryan, Motley Rice
Gurusher Panjrath, George Washington University
Grace Kistner, School of Nursing and School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Deborah Kochevar, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
Eileen Lake, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Molly Lamb, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz
Christopher LeBoa, University of California, Berkeley
Orin Levine, President and CEO, Washington Research Foundation
Rabbi Dennis Linson, Executive Director, Temple Judea, Laguna Woods
Jody Lori, School of Nursing, University of Michigan
Andrea Lourie, Denison University
Catherine Machalaba, The Nature Conservancy
James Macinko, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
Marian Marian, University of California San Diego
Mark W. Meyer, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Maud Mwakasungula, Women's Coalition Against Cancer
Anne O’Keefe, School of Medicine, Creighton University
Babatunde Olowokure, Schoolof Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago
Peter Orris, University of Illinois Chicago
Ronald Pust, College of Medicine, University of Arizona
Juan Carlos Puyana, University of Pittsburgh
Maya Rao, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University
Jessica Rettig, Denison University
Nancy R. Reynolds, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University
Vincent Silenzio, School of Public Health, Rutgers University
Sydney Spangler, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Paul Spiegel, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Heather Stark, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida
Gabriella Stern, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Chairman, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Anisha Sudarshan, Michigan Public Health Institute
Angela Sy, School of Medicine, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Michelle Telfer, School of Nursing, Yale University
Joseph Tucker, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Sten Vermund, College of Public Health, University of South Florida
Lynda Wilson, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dean Winslow, School of Medicine, Stanford University
Veronika Wirtz, School of Public Health, Boston University
Kasra Zarei, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Donald Zeigler, American Medical Association
Steven Buchsbaum, President, Pole Creek Foundation
Esther M. Johnston, Academic Family Physician
Rachel Kreier, St. Joseph’s University
Colin McIff, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetrics, Trauma, and Anesthesia Care
Maria Munoz, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
Darcy Abrams, Smile Train
Doug Fountain, Christian Connections for International Health
Anna Nogar, University of New Mexico
Ximena Saenz, Financial Director, Baalnak Reinsurance and Innovation
Sarah Pollack, College of Staten Island- CUNY
Vincent van Panhuys, Attorney
Lucia Osa-Melero, Duquesne University
Martha Espinoza, Independent Journalist
Diane Baker, The Children’s Inn at NIH
Sara Stamatiades, Mason Prep School
Jennifer Peterson, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Delaware
Kevin Cain, American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges
Stephen P. Marks, School of Public Health, Harvard University
Oscar Suriel, Pediatrician
Ricardo Echalar, Consultant
Sr. Mary E. Boesen, President, Sisters of Loretto
Rev. Breana van Velzen, Executive Director, Durham Congregations In Action
Andrew Lover, School of Public Health & Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Graham Huntington, student at Brown University School of Public Health