30 public health professors in the United States, at 16 universities. The most represented are University of Washington, Harvard University and University of California, San Francisco. 10 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.
The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in the United States whose recent work sits in public health. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently public health figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.
Medicine · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Mosquito-borne diseases and controlCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesChild Nutrition and Water Access
Recent: Global burden of enteric infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases, and corresponding aetiologies, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (2026)
Medicine · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19 epidemiological studiesMosquito-borne diseases and controlZoonotic diseases and public health
Recent: Global, regional, and national burden of HIV/AIDS, 1990–2023, with the estimated burden attributable to intimate partner violence and forecasted impacts of funding cuts through 2030: results from the (2026)
Child Nutrition and Water AccessFood Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsBirth, Development, and Health
Recent: Maternal Dietary Patterns in Pregnancy and Their Relationship to Birth Outcomes in Bangladesh: A Latent-Transition Analysis of the JiVitA-3 Trial (2026)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Agronomy and Crop Science
Reproductive Physiology in LivestockReproductive System and PregnancyReproductive Biology and Fertility
Universities on this list: University of Washington (5) · Harvard University (4) · University of California, San Francisco (3) · Stanford University (2) · University of California San Diego (2) · University of Minnesota (2) · University of Pennsylvania (2) · Washington University in St. Louis (2) · Duke University (1) · Emory University (1) · Johns Hopkins University (1) · Northwestern University (1) · Texas A&M University (1) · The Ohio State University (1) · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1) · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1)
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