Faculty Achievements
David Meltzer, MD’93, PhD’92
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently selected the members of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020. David Meltzer, MD’93, PhD’92, Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHESS), was chosen to serve on this committee whose responsibility is to make recommendations for developing and implementing national health promotion and disease prevention objectives for Healthy People 2020. The HHS website notes, “Since 1979, Healthy People has set and monitored national health objectives to meet a broad range of health needs, engage people across the nation to work together, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions, and measure the impact of prevention activity.”
