Leroy E. Burney, MD, MPH
- At a Glance
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Leadership
- Dean MacKenzie
- Deans
- Chairs
- Faculty Senate
- Student Assembly
- Staff Assembly
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Health Advisory Board
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Board Members
- Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS '73
- Andrea D. Willis, MD, MPH '99, FAAP
- Ashok Agarwal, MPH '84
- Brian D. Crawford, PhD '82
- Caroline Popper, MD, MPH '90
- Catharine C. Dorrier
- Chereé M. Haswell Johnson, JD
- Christopher Anzalone
- Christopher I.M. Jones
- Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD
- Constance R. Caplan, MA '78
- Dave Hickey
- Dean Goodermote
- Deborah Levy, PhD '97, MPH
- Douglass B. Given, MD
- Edward J. Ludwig, MBA
- Faith Thomas, JD
- George L. Bunting, Jr.
- Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD '98
- Ira M. Rutkow, MD, PhD '81, MPH '78
- Irene C. Frary, MBA
- Joseph A. Boystak, MPH '77
- Karl P. Ronn
- Kathleen Ludwig
- Kelvin A. Baggett, MD, MPH '05
- Manfred Eggersdorfer, PhD
- Margaret Conn Himelfarb, MPH '04
- Marion Bergman, MD
- Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH '87
- Michael Kullman
- Pamela Hoehn-Saric
- Randolph "Randy" Gordon, MD, MPH '88
- Robert Carr, MD, MPH '86, FACPM
- Robert J. Abernethy, '62
- Roberta L. Schwartz, PhD, MHS '94
- Rodrigo A. Sierra, MBA
- Roger C. Lipitz
- Shale D. Stiller, MLS '77
- Sister Charlotte Kerr, RN, BSN, MPH
- Stephen G. Moore, MD, MPH '93
- Suprotik Basu, MHS `02
- Thomas McCann
- William C. Clarke III
- William Flumenbaum
- Committee Structure
- Philanthropic Impact
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Board Members
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Student Life
- Campus
- Baltimore
- Strategic Priorities
- Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (IDARE)
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History
- Timeline
- Deans of the School
- Mike Bloomberg
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Heroes of Public Health
- Abel Wolman
- Abraham Lilienfeld, MD, MPH
- Alexander Langmuir, MD, MPH
- Anna M Baetjer, ScD
- Annelies S. Zachary, MD, MPH
- Annelies S. Zachary, MD, MPH
- Annik A. Rouillon, MD, MPH
- B. Frank Polk, MD, MSc
- Bernard Roizman, ScD
- Bill Gates, Sr.
- Carroll E. Palmer, MD, PhD
- Elmer V. McCollum, PhD
- Emanuel Kaplan, ScD
- Ernest L. Stebbins, MD, MPH
- Frank Hurley
- Fred Soper, DrPH, MPH
- Frederik Bang, MD
- George Comstock, MD, DrPH, MPH
- George W. A. Dick, MBChB, MPH
- Gilbert Otto, ScD
- Harry G. Day, ScD
- Helen Abbey, ScD
- Henry E. Sigerist, MD, PhD
- Herald R. Cox, ScD
- Jae-Moe Yang, MD, MPH, DMSc
- Jo Eirik Asvall, MD, MPH
- John H. Hanks, PhD
- Justin Andrews, ScD
- Kenneth Maxcy, DrPH
- Leo Kaprio, MD, DrPH, MPH
- Leroy E. Burney, MD, MPH
- Lewis Robbins, MD, MPH
- Lloyd E. Rozeboom, ScD
- Margaret Merrell, ScD
- Mo-Im Kim, DrPH, MPH
- Nowshir Jungalwalla, MD, MPH
- Paul V. Lemkau, MD
- Raymond Pearl, PhD
- Robert W. Hegner, PhD
- Ross Gauld, DrPH MPH
- Russell E. Morgan, MD
- Sushila Nayar, MBBS, DrPH, MPH
- Timothy Danforth Baker, MD, MPH ’54
- Virginia Apgar, MD, MPH
- William Henry Welch, MD
- William W. Cort, PhD
- Yolanda Nashio
- Centennial 2016
- What is Public Health?

A public health administrator, Dr. Burney was born in 1906 in Indiana, and earned his M.D. from Indiana University in 1930. He attended the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health as a Rockefeller Fellow and earned his MPH in 1932.
He served with the United States Marine Hospital in Chicago in 1930-31, and was commissioned in the Regular Corps of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) shortly thereafter. During World War II, he designed measures to lower the rate of communicable diseases in various Mediterranean ports. After a nine-year career as state health commissioner of Indiana, he became the assistant to the Surgeon General and deputy chief of the Bureau of State Services in the USPHS.
Dr. Burney was the first Surgeon General to declare officially that "increasing and consistent evidence" indicate that "excessive cigarette smoking" is one of the causative factors of lung cancer. This was the first time the USPHS cited a definite cause and effect relationship between the two. In 1960, Dr. Burney oversaw the establishment of the National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Burney died on July 31, 1998, four months after he had come back to his alma mater to participate in a symposium, "The Surgeons General Report-America's Health: Past, Present and Future". It was his last public appearance.