Top 100 Scientists in Public Health & Health Services

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The Top 2% Scientists List, compiled by Stanford University, recognizes the world’s most influential researchers across various scientific disciplines. This prestigious list is based on standardized citation metrics and multiple criteria, providing a comprehensive evaluation of scientific impact. You can read this article to learn more about this list. The TopResearchersList Website provides a searchable Database for the Top 2% of Scientists.

Public Health & Health Services

Public Health & Health Services is a multidisciplinary field that focuses on protecting and improving the health of populations through organized efforts and informed choices. It encompasses a wide range of activities, including disease prevention, health promotion, epidemiological research, environmental health, health policy development, and the provision of essential health services. In the field of Public Health & Health Services, the Top 2% Scientists list highlights researchers who have made significant contributions to improving population health and healthcare systems.

Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals

The following table showcases the top 100 researchers in Public Health & Health Services, ranked based on the Top 2% Scientists Lis. You can click on their names to check the TopResearchersList Profiles for more details.

Rank	Name	Institute	Country	Subfield 1	Subfield 2
1	Williams, David R.	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	United States	Public Health	Psychiatry
2	Griffiths, Mark D.	Nottingham Trent University	United Kingdom	Substance Abuse	Psychiatry
3	VanderWeele, Tyler J.	Harvard University	United States	Epidemiology	Statistics & Probability
4	Meyer, Ilan H.	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Public Health	Psychiatry
5	Greenland, Sander	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Epidemiology	Statistics & Probability
6	Michie, Susan	University College London	United Kingdom	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
7	Krieger, Nancy	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	United States	Public Health	Epidemiology
8	Sandelowski, Margarete	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	Nursing	Public Health
9	Deng, Li	Vatic Investments		Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology	Acoustics
10	Rehm, Jürgen	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	Canada	Substance Abuse	Public Health
11	Lupton, Deborah	UNSW Sydney	Australia	Public Health	Sociology
12	MacKinnon, David P.	Arizona State University	United States	Social Sciences Methods	Substance Abuse
13	Bohannon, Richard W.	University of Connecticut	United States	Rehabilitation	Sport Sciences
14	Stuart, Elizabeth A.	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	United States	Statistics & Probability	Substance Abuse
15	Ware, John E.	Tufts University School of Medicine	United States	Health Policy & Services	General & Internal Medicine
16	Sallis, James F.	Australian Catholic University	Australia	Public Health	Sport Sciences
17	Hatzenbuehler, Mark L.	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	United States	Public Health	Substance Abuse
18	Galea, Sandro	School of Public Health	United States	Public Health	Psychiatry
19	Diez-Roux, Ana V.	Drexel University	United States	Public Health	Epidemiology
20	Hasin, Deborah S.	New York State Psychiatric Institute	United States	Substance Abuse	Psychiatry
21	Kawachi, Ichiro	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	United States	Public Health	Epidemiology
22	Morse, Janice M.	University of Utah Health	United States	Nursing	Public Health
23	Braveman, Paula	University of California, San Francisco	United States	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
24	Petticrew, Mark	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
25	Degenhardt, Louisa	UNSW Sydney	Australia	Substance Abuse	Psychiatry
26	Hall, Wayne	The University of Queensland	Australia	Substance Abuse	Psychiatry
27	Janssen, Ian	Queen’s University	Canada	Public Health	Sport Sciences
28	Glasgow, Russell E.	University of Colorado School of Medicine	United States	Public Health	Endocrinology & Metabolism
29	Link, Bruce G.	University of California, Riverside	United States	Public Health	Psychiatry
30	Labrague, Leodoro Jabien	Loyola University Chicago	United States	Nursing	General & Internal Medicine
31	Bauman, Adrian	The University of Sydney	Australia	Public Health	Sport Sciences
32	Bowleg, Lisa	The George Washington University	United States	Public Health	Social Psychology
33	West, Robert	University College London	United Kingdom	Substance Abuse	Public Health
34	Nutbeam, Don	The University of Sydney	Australia	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
35	Thoits, Peggy A.	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	Public Health	Sociology
36	Fishbein, Martin	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	United States	Public Health	Social Psychology
37	Bambra, C.	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
38	Mackenbach, Johan P.	Erasmus MC	Netherlands	Public Health	Epidemiology
39	Grant, Bridget F.	Fedpoint Systems, LLC	United States	Substance Abuse	Psychiatry
40	Munn, Zachary	The University of Adelaide	Australia	Nursing	Epidemiology
41	Malterud, Kirsti	Universitetet i Bergen	Norway	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
42	Aarons, Gregory A.	University of California, San Diego	United States	Psychiatry	Health Policy & Services
43	McHugh, Mary L.	University of California Cooperative Extension	United States	Nursing	General Clinical Medicine
44	Damschroder, Laura J.	VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System	United States	Health Policy & Services	Public Health
45	Levy, Becca R.	Yale University	United States	Gerontology	Public Health
46	Berkman, Lisa F.	Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies	United States	Public Health	Epidemiology
47	Weinstein, Neil D.	School of Environmental and Biological Sciences	United States	Public Health	Social Psychology
48	Peters, Micah D.J.	University of South Australia	Australia	Nursing	General & Internal Medicine
49	Wade, Derick T.	Oxford Brookes University	United Kingdom	Rehabilitation	Neurology & Neurosurgery
50	Crimmins, Eileen M.	University of Southern California	United States	Gerontology	Public Health
51	Beck, Cheryl	University of Connecticut	United States	Nursing	Psychiatry
52	Elwyn, Glyn	The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice	United States	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
53	Campbell, Jacquelyn C.	Johns Hopkins School of Nursing	United States	Criminology	Public Health
54	Ulrich, Roger S.	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	Nursing	Social Psychology
55	Paradies, Yin	Deakin University	Australia	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
56	Umberson, Debra	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Public Health	Family Studies
57	Adler, Nancy E.	University of California, San Francisco	United States	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
58	Zimmerman, Marc	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	United States	Public Health	Developmental & Child Psychology
59	Petry, Nancy M.	UConn Health	United States	Substance Abuse	Psychiatry
60	Peltzer, Karl	University of the Free State	South Africa	Public Health	Endocrinology & Metabolism
61	Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne	School of Public Health	United States	Public Health	Nutrition & Dietetics
62	Nilsen, Per	Linköpings Universitet	Sweden	Public Health	Health Policy & Services
63	Keyes, Katherine	Mailman School of Public Health	United States	Psychiatry	Substance Abuse
64	Wagstaff, Adam	The World Bank, USA	United States	Health Policy & Services	Economics
65	Jewkes, Rachel	South African Medical Research Council	South Africa	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
66	Krause, Neal	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	United States	Gerontology	Social Psychology
67	Bull, Fiona C.	Organisation Mondiale de la Santé	Switzerland	Public Health	Sport Sciences
68	Eisenberg, Daniel	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Psychiatry	Substance Abuse
69	Whitehead, Margaret	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	Public Health	Epidemiology
70	Brewer, Noel T.	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health	United States	Public Health	Virology
71	Rhodes, Ryan E.	University of Victoria	Canada	Public Health	Sport Sciences
72	Phelan, Jo C.	Columbia University	United States	Public Health	Psychiatry
73	Singh, Gopal K.	Health Resources and Services Administration	United States	Public Health	Pediatrics
74	Heise, Lori	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	United States	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
75	Owen, Neville	Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute	Australia	Public Health	Sport Sciences
76	Cerin, Ester	Australian Catholic University	Australia	Public Health	Sport Sciences
77	May, Carl	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
78	Briggs, Andrew	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	Health Policy & Services	General & Internal Medicine
79	Thorne, Sally	The University of British Columbia	Canada	Nursing	Oncology & Carcinogenesis
80	Titze, Ingo R.	Utah Center for Vocology	United States	Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology	Acoustics
81	Andersen, Ronald M.	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Health Policy & Services	Public Health
82	Shakespeare, Tom	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	Rehabilitation	Public Health
83	Braithwaite, Jeffrey	The Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences	Australia	Health Policy & Services	General & Internal Medicine
84	Pearlin, Leonard I.	University of California, San Francisco	United States	Gerontology	Public Health
85	Graham, John W.	Pennsylvania State University	United States	Public Health	Social Sciences Methods
86	Levine, Morgan E.	San Diego Institute of Science	United States	Developmental Biology	Gerontology
87	Coyne, Imelda	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	Nursing	General & Internal Medicine
88	Windmeijer, Frank	Nuffield College, University Of Oxford	United Kingdom	Econometrics	Health Policy & Services
89	Shiffman, Saul	Pinney Associates, Inc.	United States	Substance Abuse	Public Health
90	Finlay, Linda	The Open University	United Kingdom	Rehabilitation	Clinical Psychology
91	Prochaska, James O.	The University of Rhode Island	United States	Public Health	Substance Abuse
92	Hays, Ron D.	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	United States	Health Policy & Services	General & Internal Medicine
93	Weiner, Bryan J.	University of Washington	United States	Health Policy & Services	Public Health
94	Betsch, Cornelia	Universität Erfurt	Germany	Public Health	Virology
95	Valente, Thomas W.	Keck School of Medicine of USC	United States	Public Health	Substance Abuse
96	Hammond, David	University of Waterloo	Canada	Public Health	Substance Abuse
97	Rosenstock, Irwin M.	California State University, Long Beach	United States	Public Health	General & Internal Medicine
98	Bauer, Greta R.	University of Minnesota Medical School	United States	Public Health	Substance Abuse
99	Des Jarlais, Don C.	New York University	United States	Substance Abuse	Public Health
100	Kampf, G.	Universitätsmedizin Greifswald	Germany	Epidemiology	Microbiology

 Public health professionals work to address both communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as social determinants of health such as education, housing, and economic stability. The field aims to create healthier communities by implementing evidence-based interventions, conducting health assessments, developing policies, and ensuring equitable access to healthcare. Public Health & Health Services plays a crucial role in enhancing overall population health, reducing health disparities, and responding to public health emergencies