Ruth J. Katz, J.D., M.P.H.

Ruth J. Katz, J.D., M.P.H., associate dean for administration and assistant professor of medicine and public health, has been appointed to the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health for a four-year term that ends in 2004. As counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health and the Environment in the early 1990s, Katz helped write key legislation ensuring that women would be better represented in federally funded clinical trials. She has been active in building the women’s health program at Yale since arriving at the school in 1997.