Barry S. Levy

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Barry S. Levy (born 1944) is a physician and former president of the American Public Health Association. He studied at Tufts University (B.S. 1966), earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard in 1970, and got his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medicine in 1971. He completed internal medicine training in Boston and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is currently an adjunct professor of community and public health at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Levy has worked as a medical epidemiologist at the CDC, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and director of international public health programs. He has served in many roles within the American Public Health Association. With Victor W. Sidel, he wrote War and Public Health and Terrorism and Public Health, among other books. He is coauthor of Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, a public health textbook. Levy edited Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury (2005) for the American Public Health Association. In 2015, he coauthored Climate Change and Public Health with Jonathan Patz, and in 2022 he published From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.