Dr. Susan Blumenthal

Rear Admiral, Former Assistant Surgeon General, Women’s Health Pioneer

Baltimore, MD, USA
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Diabetes, Health & Wellness, Healthcare, Political, Public Health, Virtual, Women's Health
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Dr. Susan Blumenthal Biography

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A., served as a leading U.S. government health expert and spokesperson for more than 20 years in the Administrations of four U.S. Presidents. She was Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S.; the first-ever Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health; Senior Global and e-Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Chief of the Behavioral Medicine and Basic Prevention Research Branch; Head of the Suicide Research Unit at the National Institute of Mental Health, NIH; Chair of the NIH Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee, and a White House advisor on health issues. Blumenthal is especially known for her significant leadership in exposing the inequities in women’s health and developing innovative initiatives to advance women’s health and the study of sex differences in disease in the United States and globally. She has also been a pioneer in applying technology to advance health.

Dr. Blumenthal is currently amfAR’s Senior Policy and Medical Advisor, has organized many Capitol Hill briefings on a range of issues related to the pandemic, and established amfAR’s Allan Rosenfield Public Policy Fellowship program. Her work has included a focus on HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s. Blumenthal convened the first NIH Conference on Women and AIDS in 1985, contributed to the first Surgeon General’s Report on AIDS in 1987 that was sent to all Americans, coordinated behavioral research at NIH on HIV prevention strategies, and established as well as chaired the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Task Force on Women and AIDS.

Dr. Blumenthal is also a Clinical Professor at Tufts and Georgetown University Schools of Medicine, a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at New America, and a member of the MIT Media Lab Advisory Board. She is currently working with MIT on the Beat the Virus campaign that uses social media to mobilize individual actions to help defeat the coronavirus pandemic. Blumenthal has been the Public Health Editor of the Huffington Post, the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's Studies at Brandeis University, the Elizabeth Blackwell Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic, the Lila Wallis Visiting Professor in Women’s Health at Weill Cornell School of Medicine, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's School of Government. She has authored several articles on health including "Obesity Prevention in Women: Tipping the Scales Towards Health" and "A 21st Century Health Care Roadmap: The Path from Peril to Progress".

Dr. Blumenthal has organized and chaired many national and international conferences and briefings, written numerous scientific articles, edited books, and served as an expert in the media on HIV/AIDS and other health issues. She was the host and medical director of an award-winning television series on women’s health. Admiral Blumenthal is the recipient of numerous awards, medals, and honorary doctorates for her landmark contributions to improving health. She was named the Health Leader of the Year by the Commissioned Officers Association, as a Rock Star of Science by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation and decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service, its highest honor, “for distinguished and pioneering leadership, groundbreaking contributions and dedicated public service that has improved the health of women, our Nation, and the world.”

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/16/2025.

Dr. Susan Blumenthal Speaking Topics

  • The Coronavirus: Preventing and Preparing for Pandemics

  • Pandemic Flu Preparedness: What You Need to Know

    The recent outbreak of “H1N1 swine flu” in Mexico that quickly spread to the United States and to every continent around the world underscores the urgency of pandemic flu preparedness. Since 1997, medical experts have been warning that international travel, a weakened public health system, and antiquated vaccine production methods have made the prospect of an influenza pandemic a matter of when, not if.

    In recent years, the “bird flu”–H5N1 strain of the influenza virus currently circulating in many countries has worried public health officials about its potential to develop into a deadly human virus. Already, the virus has “killed more birds than any in the history of the world,” humans do not have immunity, and unlike seasonal flu, strikes younger victims. However, it was a novel strain of flu –H1N1 or “the swine flu” that emerged in Mexico– that became the next human pandemic– infecting millions of people and resulting in thousands of deaths around the world. Although not as lethal as initially feared, it remains a possible threat to the health of people globally. One of the lessons learned from its emergence and spread and from other events like Hurricane Katrina is that the United States is not adequately prepared to deal with public health crises including severe natural disasters, bioterrorist attacks, or a possible pandemic flu.

    This presentation discusses what is known about emerging disease threats such as H1N1 flu, what causes it to become a human pandemic, and what steps individuals, businesses, and the government can take to reduce risk as well as effectively respond to such challenges in the future.

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Dr. Susan Blumenthal on the State of American Healthcare

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Dr. Susan Blumenthal is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Coronavirus: Preventing and Preparing for Pandemics, Pandemic Flu Preparedness: What You Need to Know, Healing our Ailing Health Care System, Winning the War Against Cancer: A Progress Report, Global Health Issues in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges and Critical Women's Health Issues in the 21st Century. The estimated speaking fee range to book Dr. Susan Blumenthal for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Dr. Susan Blumenthal generally travels from Baltimore, MD, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Leana Wen, Dr. Joel Selanikio, Dr. Arabia Mollette, David Ansell and Dr. Connie Mariano. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Dr. Susan Blumenthal for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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