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Thomas E. Novotny, MD, MPH
A graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the UCSF Family Practice Residency in Santa Rosa, California, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Tom Novotny served for 23-years in the United States Public Health Service. During that career, he was a National Health Service Corps Family Physician in northern California, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC liaison to the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, and CDC liaison to the World Bank. He most recently was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Refugee Health in the Department of Health and Human Services and an Assistant Surgeon General. Dr. Novotny has worked extensively in tobacco control and in health
systems reform, particularly in Eastern Europe. He has published widely
on tobacco issues and has been a contributing author and editor of several
Reports of the Surgeon General on Tobacco and Health. He consults regularly
with the World Bank and other international organizations, and serves
on the UC Senior International Leaders Council and the Board of the UC
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His research now includes
HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, the Bioethics of Globalization, and non-communicable
disease control. He supervises the Area of Concentration in Global Health
and Training in Clinical Research courses for medical students; he coordinates
UCSF Global Health Sciences educational activities for pre-doctoral and
doctoral students, as well as training activities for international scholars. Recent Publications
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