Ruth J. Katz
Vice President and Executive Director, Health, Medicine, and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
As vice president of the Aspen Institute, executive director of the Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society Program, and director of Aspen Ideas: Health, Ruth Katz leads a program that brings together influential groups of thought leaders, decisionmakers, and the informed public to consider 21st-century health challenges in the US and to identify practical solutions for addressing them. Previously, she was the Walter G. Ross Professor of Health Policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University, where she
served as dean from 2003 to 2008. She has also served as associate dean for administration at the Yale University School of Medicine and chief public health counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives, where she played a pivotal role in shepherding the Affordable Care Act through the legislative process. Katz holds her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a law degree from Emory University.
Vice President and Executive Director, Health, Medicine, and Society Program
The Aspen Institute
As vice president of the Aspen Institute, executive director of the Institute’s Health, Medicine and Society Program, and director of Aspen Ideas: Health, Ruth Katz leads a program that brings together influential groups of thought leaders, decisionmakers, and the informed public to consider 21st-century health challenges in the US and to identify practical solutions for addressing them. Previously, she was the Walter G. Ross Professor of Health Policy at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University, where she
served as dean from 2003 to 2008. She has also served as associate dean for administration at the Yale University School of Medicine and chief public health counsel to the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives, where she played a pivotal role in shepherding the Affordable Care Act through the legislative process. Katz holds her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a law degree from Emory University.
