Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, is dean and professor at Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine. Prothrow-Stith advised top-tier healthcare institutions on leadership as a principal at Spencer Stuart, and served as the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Public Health Practice and Associate Dean for Diversity at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she created the Division of Public Health Practice and secured more than $14 million in grant funding for health programs. While working in inner-city Boston, she broke new ground with efforts to define youth violence as a health problem. Prothrow-Stith developed The Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents, a forerunner of violence prevention curricula for schools, and authored or co-authored Deadly Consequences (HarperCollins 1991); Murder Is No Accident (Jossey Bass Publishers, 2004); Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice (Jossey Bass Publishers, 2005); a high school textbook, Health (Pearson 2014); and, more than 100 articles. In 1987, Governor Michael Dukakis appointed Prothrow-Stith Commissioner of Public Health for Massachusetts, where she led a department with 3,500 employees, eight hospitals, and a budget of $350 million. She and her family lived in Tanzania during her husband’s tenure as U.S. Ambassador. Prothrow-Stith is a graduate of Spelman College and Harvard Medical School and a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. In 2003, she was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. She has received ten honorary doctorates, and in 2017 was named Woman of the Year for the 2nd District by the LA County Board of Supervisors.