Ruth Katz
Ruth Katz, JD, MPH, is executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine & Society Program and co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative.
Katz serves as vice president of the Aspen Institute and directs Aspen Ideas Health. Before joining the Aspen Institute, she served on the professional staff of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the US House of Representatives as chief public health counsel. She has also been Walter G. Ross Professor of Health Policy of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, dean of that school, and associate dean for administration at Yale University School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she earned a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University and a law degree from Emory University.