Leonard Rubenstein

Leonard Rubenstein is a Senior Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to that he served as Executive Director and then President of Physicians for Human Rights and as Executive Director of the Judge David Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. He has also been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and currently chairs its Health and Peace Building Working Group.

A graduate of Harvard Law School and Wesleyan University, Mr. Rubenstein has spent thirty years engaged in advocacy for human rights and health domestically and internationally on subjects including human rights dimensions of U.S. national security policies and practices; global health policy; human rights, health and armed conflict; gender, racial and ethnic inequality; and medical ethics and human rights. He has conducted human rights investigations in Kosovo, Chechnya, South Africa, the Israel and the Occupied Territory, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and elsewhere. He has written extensively both for scholarly publications and in major media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe.

Mr. Rubenstein is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations and has served on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Congressional Minority Caucuses’ Healthcare Hero Award.