My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading

Sit down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity. Interviewed by Jeremy Redmon, an award-winning reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dr. David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, will discuss his long career in medicine and the importance of gaining equitable treatment in healthcare. His book, My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading, will be available on September 8.

Dr. David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., was the 16th Surgeon General of the United States and former Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. He was the second person in history to hold both posts simultaneously. His tenure of public service also includes serving as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1993 to 1998. A four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he is a renowned champion for healthy lifestyles and for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health. He is founder and current Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, and Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health at Morehouse School of Medicine. In addition to his distinguished career nationally, he has served since 2005 on the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Satcher received his bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College in 1963. He went on to earn his medical degree and his doctor of philosophy in cytogenetics at Case Western Reserve University in 1970. Dr. Satcher and his wife, Nola, reside in Bethesda, Maryland, and have four grown children.

An award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience writing for newspapers, Jeremy Redmon reports for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has written extensively about the coronavirus pandemic, war, politics, and immigration. His assignments have taken him to the U.S.-Mexican border, Central America and the Middle East. His work has also appeared in The Bitter Southerner, The War Horse and US Lacrosse Magazine. Redmon graduated last year from the University of Georgia’s Master of Fine Arts program in narrative nonfiction writing.

My Quest for Health Equity by Dr. Satcher available through local, indie bookseller Tall Tales

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