Steffie Woolhandler

Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, is a primary care doctor, a distinguished professor of public health at the City University of New York School and Hunter College, and a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she was formerly professor of medicine. A native of Louisiana, she graduated from LSU Medical School in New Orleans and completed an internal medicine residency at Cambridge Hospital. She also holds an MPH degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Woolhandler completed a research fellowship in general internal medicine at Harvard, and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. She has published more than 200 journal articles, reviews, chapters, and books on health policy and is a leading advocate of single-payer national health insurance for the United States. She has served as an advisor to several political leaders, most recently Senator Bernie Sanders. In 1986, she co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program.