Lowell S. Levin (1967-1970)

Lowell Levin is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Yale University, where he pioneered the citizen-participation movement in health during the 1960s. His books, most notably Self-Care: Lay Initiatives in Health (1976) and Medicine on Trial (1988), brought attention to the role of non-professional resources in strengthening personal capacity for health and well-being, while illuminating the need to improve the quality of medical care. Dr. Levin has been an adviser to the World Health Organization’s European Region, as well as to various non-governmental organizations in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, where he worked to develop cross-departmental collaborations, particularly at the national level in European countries, to improve the impact on health of diverse public policies in such areas as agriculture, education, environment, employment, communications, and tourism.