This week it was announced that Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next president of the University of Miami. He joins a growing list of sitting presidents that have been deans of Schools of Public Health. Highlighted below are the former ASPPH deans that currently serve as university presidents.

• Dr. Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will become the next president of the University of Miami. He will step down at the end of August and assume his new role on September 1. Read the full press release.
• Dr. Mark Becker, former dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, is the current president of the Georgia State University.
• Dr. Ronald M. Berkman, former dean of the Florida International University College of Urban and Public Affairs (where he created and led an interdisciplinary College with accredited Schools of Nursing, Health Sciences, Public Health, Social Work and Policy and Management), is the current president of Cleveland State University.
• Dr. Eli Capilouto, former dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, is the current president of the University of Kentucky.
• Dr. Robert G. Frank, former dean of the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, is the current president of the University of New Mexico.
• Dr. Raymond S. Greenberg, founding dean at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and former president of the Medical University of South Carolina, is the current executive vice chancellor of The University of Texas System.
• Dr. Richard Hart, former dean of Loma Linda University School of Public Health, is the current president of Loma Linda University.
• Dr. Harris Pastides, former dean of the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health is the current president of the University of South Carolina.
• Dr. Susan Scrimshaw, former dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, is the current president of The Sage Colleges.