Steffie Woolhandler

Stephanie Joan "Steffie" Woolhandler (born 1950 or 1951 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American primary care physician and medical researcher. An advocate for single-payer health insurance in the United States, she is a co-founder and board member of Physicians for a National Health Program. She is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Health Policy at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and an adjunct clinical professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is also a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she formerly co-directed the general internal medicine internship program.

Steffie Woolhandler
Woolhandler in 2018
Born1950/1951 (age 70–71)
Alma materStanford University
Louisiana State University
University of California, Berkeley
OccupationPhysician
EmployerCUNY School of Public Health
OrganizationPhysicians for a National Health Program
TitleDistinguished Professor of Public Health and Health Policy
Partner(s)David Himmelstein

Early life and education

Steffi Woolhandler (born 1950/1951) grew up in Louisiana; her father was a radiologist in Shreveport.[1] Woolhandler received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University; her medical degree from Louisiana State University; and her master's degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3]

Career

Woolhandler joined the faculty at Harvard in 1987. From 1990 to 1991, she worked at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a health policy fellow at the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Congress.[2]

Research

Woolhandler has published more than 50 papers on the subjects of health policy, administrative overhead, the uninsured,[4] health care access and financing.[2][5]

She is co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era, in February 2021 issuing a report that compared US deaths from Coronavirus disease 2019 to mortality rates in the other G7 countries. The report found 40% of US deaths were avoidable and attributable to mismanagement by the Trump Administration.[6]

Honors and awards

In 1994, Woolhandler received the Edward K. Barsky Award from the Physicians Forum, and in 1996 the Ethical Culture Society named her "Humanist of the Year."[3] In 2009, she received that year's A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard.[5]

Personal life

Woolhandler's partner, since 1979, is PNHP co-founder David U. Himmelstein. They have two daughters.[1]

References
  1. Matthiessen, Constance (November 27, 1990). "Should the US Copy Canada?". The Washington Post.
  2. "Speakers Bureau". Physicians for a National Health Program. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  3. "Steffie Woolhandler". Changing the Face of Medicine. National Library of Medicine. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  4. Gunaratna, Shanika (June 26, 2017). "Health insurance can make a life or death difference, study says". CBS News. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
  5. "Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, receives excellence in mentoring award from Harvard Medical School". Harvard Gazette. 16 July 2009. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  6. Alltucker, Ken. "Roughly 40% of the USA's coronavirus deaths could have been prevented, new study says". USA TODAY. Archived from the original on 2021-02-27. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
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