To date, more than 2500 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
Department of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
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
Inpatient Diabetes Program, Boston University
Boston, MA
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
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
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
Diana G. Barnard, MA
Case Manager, Multnomah County Health Department
Portland, OR
Oregon Public Health Association
Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor, Family Medicine,University of Pennsylvania
Past President, American Public Health Association
Philadelphia, PA
T. Berry Brazelton, MD
World-Renowned Pediatrician, Author, and Professor
Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston
Cambridge, MA
William C. Roberts, MD
Executive Director, Baylor Cardiovascular Institute
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Cardiology
Dallas, TX
Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, and Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Doctors for Change
Houston, TX
Patch Adams, MD
Activist Physician, Gesundheit! Institute
Arlington, VA
Quentin Young, MD
National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program
Doctor of Internal Medicine, Hyde Park Associates in Medicine
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
Doctors for America
Family Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance
Boston, MA
Oregon Academy of Family Physicians
Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition
National Council of Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP)
Massachusetts Public Health Association
Vermont Public Health Association
Douglas Rogers, MD
Head of Pediatric Endocrinology, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
New Mexico Public Health Association
The Prevention Institute
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
Nutrition and Weight Management Center, Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
American Sleep Apnea Association
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
Vermont Nurse Practitioners Association
FGE Food & Nutrition Team
New York, NY
American Medical Student Association
Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., MD
Director, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Reversal Program, and Best-Selling Author
Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute
Cleveland, OH
Science and Environmental Health Network
Family Practice and Counseling Network
Philadelphia, PA
Janine Sanchez, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Pediatric Diabetes Program, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
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
T. Colin Campbell, PhD
Author, The China Study
Professor Emeritus, Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Baltimore Medical System
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP
Director, Yale Prevention Research Center
Editor-in-Chief, Childhood Obesity
New Haven, CT
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
Donald W. Zeigler, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Community Health Program and Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL
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
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
Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
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
Dick Jackson, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health
Los Angeles, CA
Illinois Maternal & Child Health Coalition
Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician, On-Air Medical Correspondent, Author, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical School
Los Angeles, CA