To date, more than 3000 health professionals from around the world have signed the letter to tell McDonald’s to stop marketing junk food to kids. Signers include nationally recognized institutions, nurses, doctors, cardiologists, pediatricians, social workers, dietitians, child psychologists and public health researchers.
Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only
Vic Strasburger, MD
Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, and Family and Community Medicine
Co-Author of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albuquerque, NM
Patch Adams, MD
Activist Physician, Gesundheit! Institute
Arlington, VA
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
Chair, Department of Nutrition; Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition; and Professor of Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
T. Colin Campbell, PhD
Author, The China Study
Professor Emeritus, Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Vermont Nurse Practitioners Association
Department of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
Andrew Weil, MD
Founder and Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Jones-Lovell Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology
Best-selling Author, University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Deborah Burnet, MD, MA
Chief, General Internal Medicine; Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; and Medicine Vice Chair for Faculty Development, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Robert Lustig, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology
Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Injustice; and Associate Professor, Division of Global Health Equity
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Family Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance
Boston, MA
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor, Family Medicine,University of Pennsylvania
Past President, American Public Health Association
Philadelphia, PA
Massachusetts Public Health Association
William C. Roberts, MD
Executive Director, Baylor Cardiovascular Institute
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Cardiology
Dallas, TX
Heidi Behforouz, MD
Executive and Medical Director of the PACT Project, Partners in Health
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
Boston, MA
Diana G. Barnard, MA
Case Manager, Multnomah County Health Department
Portland, OR
Mercy Hospital & Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH
Author, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, and Professor of Sociology, New York University
New York, NY
American Medical Student Association
Nutrition and Weight Management Center, Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Vermont Public Health Association
Doctors for Change
Houston, TX
Donald W. Zeigler, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Community Health Program and Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Allan S. Noonan, MD, MPH
Chair of the Community Medicine & Public Health Section at the National Medical Association
Dean, School of Community Health and Policy, and Director, Public Health Program at Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician, On-Air Medical Correspondent, Author, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical School
Los Angeles, CA
Baltimore Medical System
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP
Director, Yale Prevention Research Center
Editor-in-Chief, Childhood Obesity
New Haven, CT
Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Cook County Department of Public Health
Chicago, IL
American Sleep Apnea Association
Dick Jackson, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health
Los Angeles, CA
T. Berry Brazelton, MD
World-Renowned Pediatrician, Author, and Professor
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Cambridge, MA
FGE Food & Nutrition Team
New York, NY
Inpatient Diabetes Program, Boston University
Boston, MA
The Prevention Institute
New Mexico Public Health Association
National Council of Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP)
Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition
Robert S. Lawrence, MD
Director, Center for a Livable Future
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD
Alan Meyers, MD, MPH
Staff Physician, Nutrition and Fitness for Life Program, Boston Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Co-Chair, Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Obesity Committee
Boston, MA
Oregon Academy of Family Physicians
Douglas Rogers, MD
Head of Pediatric Endocrinology, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
William Neal, MD
James H. Walker Chair of Pediatric Cardiology
Director, Coronary Artery Risk Detection in Appalachian Communities (CARDIAC) Project
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Oregon Public Health Association
Science and Environmental Health Network
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Family Practice and Counseling Network
Philadelphia, PA
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, and Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition
Quentin Young, MD
National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program
Doctor of Internal Medicine, Hyde Park Associates in Medicine
Chicago, IL
Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Director, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Reversal Program, and Best-Selling Author
Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute
Cleveland, OH
Doctors for America
Janine Sanchez, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Diabetes Program, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL