Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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Full Name	Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Feb 6, 1954(1954-02-06)
Age	70
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Deborah Prothrow-Stith Biography

Deborah Prothrow-Stith is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on February 6, 1954 in United States. Prothrow-Stith was conceived on the 6th of February 1954 in Marshall, Texas to Percy and Mildred Prothrow but was raised in the middle class of Atlanta, GA. The father of her mother, Percy was employed by Atlanta Life, then one of two insurance companies owned by blacks located in the South. She completed her high school education at Houston, Texas attending Jack Yates Sr. High. While being actively recruited by a variety of Ivy-league colleges, she chose Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia for her undergraduate studies and graduated with an undergraduate degree in mathematics. After graduating at Spelman around 1975, the student earned an M.D. at Harvard University Medical School in 1979.

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D. is the Dean and Professor of Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA.. She has advised top- quality healthcare institutions on leadership when she was an instructor of Spencer Stuart and she served as Henry Pickering-Walcott Professor of Public Health Practice and Associate Dean for Diversity at the Harvard School of Public Health which she founded the Division of Public Health Practice and secured more than 14 million dollars in grant funds in health initiatives. When she worked in the inner city of Boston she pioneered efforts to define the issue of youth violence as a health concern. She created the Education for Violence Prevention in Adolescents. an early model for education programs for prevention of violence in schools and also collaborated on Deadly Consequences (HarperCollins 1991); Murder Is No Accident (Jossey Bass Publishers 2004); Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice, (Jossey Bass Publishers 2005) and a high school textbook Health (Pearson 2014) as well as more than 100 papers. In 1987 the Governor Michael Dukakis appointed her Commissioner of Public Health for Massachusetts where she headed a department that had more than 3,500 employees, eight hospitals, and the budget was $350 million. Her family was in Tanzania during her husband’s time as U.S. Ambassador. Dr. Prothrow-Stith graduated from Spelman College and Harvard Medical School and is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2003 she was selected to the highly prestigious National Academy of Medicine. She has been awarded the honor of receiving ten doctorates, and in 2017 she was awarded Woman of the Year in the LA County Board of Supervisors.

The year was 1991 when she wrote Deadly Consequences: How Violent Violence is Destroying our Teenage Population and a Strategy for Finding Solutions, which was the first book in the field of literature to discuss violence from a public health angle for a large public. In 1995 the president Bill Clinton appointed her to the National Commission on Crime Control and Prevention.

Deborah Prothrow-Stith Net Worth

Deborah Prothrow-Stith is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Deborah Prothrow-Stith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Following her completion of her residency in medicine in 1982 the doctor. Prothrow-Stith began to study the issue of violence as a health risk and decided that the best solution to the problem was to implement an education strategy for the public that has been used to decrease smoking cigarettes as well as drunk driving. She has been featured on numerous national radio and television programs as well as in print discussing how schools, families as well as communities can be a part of tackling in the issue. The violence prevention curriculum for adolescents is taught in schools across every state and across the globe. After finishing her medical residency, she accepted the position of a professor within the Boston University School of Medicine and was appointed a staff physician within the Boston City Hospital. She started to work time to the Adolescent Clinic of the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center located in Dorchester which is a poorer section of Boston. From 1982 until 1996 (taking off between 1987 and 1990) she saw adolescents for anything from sore throats to pregnancies to drug addiction and attempted suicide.

In 1987 the Governor Michael Dukakis appointed her as the first female Director of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the Massachusetts Department of Public Health). While she was Commissioner, she set up the very first Office of Violence Prevention in a public department in the state of health, expanded programs for prevention for HIV/AIDS, and expanded rehab and treatment for addiction.

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Deborah Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Deborah Prothrow-Stith celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.