advocating for racial justice. Dr. Besser leads Foundation colleagues in these efforts, and has also been an influential advocate throughout the COVID-19 pandemic for prioritizing health equity in COVID-19 response as well as in planning for future public health emergencies.

Dr. Besser is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and serves on the Board of Trustees of Howard University. He co-chairs the President’s Council on Disability Inclusion in Philanthropy.

Before joining the Foundation, Dr. Besser served for eight years as chief health and medical editor for ABC News, and as a leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he worked for 13 years. He served as acting director of the CDC during the initial response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Dr. Besser served as the pediatric residency director at the University of California, San Diego, and conducted research to reduce the spread of tuberculosis to children. He returned to the CDC in 1998 as an infectious disease epidemiologist working on pneumonia, antibiotic resistance, and the control of antibiotic overuse.

The author or co-author of hundreds of presentations, abstracts, chapters, editorials and publications, Dr. Besser has earned many awards for his work in public health and his volunteer service. He received the Surgeon General's Medallion for his leadership during the H1N1 response, and in 2011, the Dean's Medal for his contributions to public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His book, “Tell Me the Truth, Doctor: Easy-to-Understand Answers to Your Most Confusing and Critical Health Questions,” written with his wife, Jeanne, was published by Hyperion in 2013.

Dr. Besser received his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Williams College and medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.

He practiced as a volunteer pediatrician at several community clinics across the nation for more than 30 years, most recently volunteering at the Henry J. Austin Health Center in Trenton, N.J. He and his wife Jeanne, a food writer, have two adult sons, Alex and Jack.

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Richard Besser，医学博士，(他/他)是罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会(RWJF)的总裁兼首席执行官，他于2017年4月担任这一职位，此前他在疾病控制和预防中心工作了很长时间ABC新闻．

罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊基金会是美国最大的健康慈善机构，致力于改善美国所有人的健康和健康公平。通过与其他国家的合作，我们正在努力建设一个植根于公平、同情和尊重的国家。一个为每个人提供公平公正的发展机会的国家，无论他们是谁、住在哪里、有多少钱。我们称之为健康文化。这也是我们基金会对美国的愿景。

健康不仅仅是没有疾病。幸福是一种身体、精神和情感的健康状态。它反映了我们的社区，我们生活和工作的地方，我们的孩子学习和玩耍的地方，以及我们聚集在一起做礼拜的地方。因此，RWJF致力于查明、阐明和解决结构性种族主义和其他形式歧视(包括性别歧视、残疾歧视和基于性取向的偏见)造成的健康障碍。

在他的职位上，贝瑟博士在健康和公平的社区条件的重要性、经济包容对家庭福祉的必要性、负责任的公共卫生和医疗保健系统以及倡导种族公正．Besser博士领导基金会同事开展这些工作，在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，他也是一名有影响力的倡导者，倡导在2019冠状病毒病应对中优先考虑卫生公平，并规划未来的公共卫生突发事件。

他是美国国家医学科学院(National Academy of Medicine)的当选成员，并任职于霍华德大学(Howard University)的董事会。他是总统慈善机构残疾包容委员会的联合主席。

在加入基金会之前，Besser博士担任了8年的首席健康和医学编辑ABC新闻他在美国疾病控制与预防中心(CDC)工作了13年。在H1N1流感大流行的初期反应期间，他曾担任疾控中心代理主任。

贝瑟博士曾在加州大学圣地亚哥分校(University of California, San Diego)担任儿科住院医师主任，并开展了减少结核病向儿童传播的研究。1998年，他回到美国疾病控制与预防中心，担任传染病流行病学家，研究肺炎、抗生素耐药性和抗生素滥用的控制。

作为数百篇演讲、摘要、章节、社论和出版物的作者或合著者，Besser博士因其在公共卫生和志愿服务方面的工作获得了许多奖项。他因在甲型H1N1流感应对期间的领导能力获得了卫生局局长勋章，并于2011年获得约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院颁发的院长勋章，以表彰他对公共卫生的贡献。他的书《告诉我真相，医生:简单易懂地回答你最困惑和关键的健康问题》由他的妻子珍妮(Jeanne)合著，于2013年由亥伯龙出版社(Hyperion)出版。

他持有Williams College的经济学学士学位和University of Pennsylvania的医学学士学位。他在巴尔的摩的约翰霍普金斯大学医院完成了儿科住院医师和首席住院医师。

他在全国几家社区诊所做了30多年的志愿儿科医生，最近是在新泽西州特伦顿的亨利j奥斯汀健康中心(Henry J. Austin Health Center)做志愿者。他和妻子珍妮(Jeanne)是一名美食作家，有两个已成年的儿子亚历克斯(Alex)和杰克(Jack)。

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