Barry S. Levy (born 1944) is a physician and former president of the American Public Health Association.
A graduate of Tufts University (B.S., 1966), he holds an M.P.H. (1970) from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed his M.D. (1971) at Weill Cornell Medicine.[1] He completed his internal medicine residency at University Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) in Boston, and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[2]
He currently is an adjunct professor of community and public health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He formerly was a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and director of international public health programs. He served in a variety of roles in the American Public Health Association.
With Victor W. Sidel, he is the author of War and Public Health, Terrorism and Public Health, and other books.[3] [4] Levy is a coauthor of Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, a textbook in public health.[5] Levy edited Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury (2005), published by the American Public Health Association.[6] In 2015, he authored Climate Change and Public Health with Jonathan Patz.[7] In 2022 he published From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.[8]