Barry S. Levy

Barry S. Levy (born 1944) is a physician and former president of the American Public Health Association.

A graduate of Tufts University (B.S., 1966), he holds an M.P.H. (1970) from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed his M.D. (1971) at Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at University Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) in Boston, and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He currently is an adjunct professor of community and public health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He formerly was a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and director of international public health programs. He served in a variety of roles in the American Public Health Association.

With Victor W. Sidel, he is the author of War and Public Health, Terrorism and Public Health, and other books. Levy is a coauthor of Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, a textbook in public health. Levy edited Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury (2005), published by the American Public Health Association. In 2015, he authored Climate Change and Public Health with Jonathan Patz. In 2022 he published From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.

Awards

 * 2005 Sedgwick Memorial Medal