Alonzo Yerby

CTL-E-6750 · Person · physician · 1921–1994

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Alonzo Smythe Yerby (1921–1994) was the first African American department chair at the Harvard School of Public Health, leading its Department of Health Services Administration, and later an associate dean there. As New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals (1965–1966) he was the first Black person to head that department, and he helped design the Medicare program. Harvard Chan's Yerby Fellowship Program, which prepares underrepresented scholars for public health faculty careers, carries his name.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — public health administrator (Harvard School of Public Health; New York City) · Photo slot: HELD — The only Commons file naming Yerby was not rights-clean; no PD/CC portrait located.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Alonzo Smythe Yerby' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Smythe_Yerby
• hsph.harvard.edu — https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/yerby-fellows-present-new-research-on-mental-health-stress-and-hiv/

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