Judy Lewis is a public health sociologist and Professor Emeritus of Public Health Sciences and Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Medical School. She is one of the founders of Women and Health: Together for the Future, currently serving as Board Chair, where she has held leadership positions since 1991. She was Co-chair of the Global MCH Network of the American Public Health Association (APHA), former chair of the APHA MCH Section International Health Committee, founding chair of the World Federation of Public Health Association?s Working Group on Women, Children and Adolescents and served as a founding member and president of the Global Health Education Consortium. Prof. Lewis developed one of the first U.S. school-based health programs for low income children in Hartford. She also developed many innovative elements of the medical school and public health curricula incorporating patient and community perspectives in clinical education, cross cultural skills, GLBT, women?s and global health. Prof. Lewis has worked to improve community health in rural Haiti for over 30 years. She authored, ?The Health of Women/Mothers and Children,? in the text Understanding Global Medicine and Health, and many articles about maternal newborn and child health in the United States, Haiti, Ecuador and Sri Lanka. She has conducted research, program evaluation and training in over 40 countries. She has received many awards, most recently the 2018 Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Health Section, American Public Health Association, honoring the visionaries and leaders in international health.
Farmington, CT, USA
Professor Emeritus, Depts of Public Health Sciences and Pediatrics/Board Chair WHTF
Public Health/Sociology
University of Connecticut School of Medicine/Women and Health Together for the Future