@article{1fc2ea629ce3430f96b85b952223b05a,
title = "H. Jack Geiger: A Pioneer Physician for Human Rights",
author = "Donna McKay and Leonard Rubenstein",
note = "Funding Information: Jack never shied away from audacious goals and he remained forever hopeful, even in dark times. Shortly after the 2016 US presidential election, Donna McKay called Jack, trying to figure out what to tell medical students who were distraught about the threatened repeal of the Affordable Care Act. “Jack,” she asked, “what words of hope can I offer to these students?” Jack replied: “Try taking away health insurance from the more than 20 million Americans who now have it.” Underlying his quip were his savvy political strategies and clever tactics. When seeking federal funding for community health centers in the South, he had to find a way around the veto power of governors of projects funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and the reticence of federal officials to antagonize them. He accomplished both, establishing the program to circumvent the possibility of a gubernatorial veto and in one instance staging a sit-in in the office of Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.1 Yet he was a realist, too. In 2002, at height of the Second Intifada, Len Rubenstein and Jack led a Physicians for Human Rights delegation to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory to investigate the violence, including Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and the Israel Defense Forces{\textquoteright} killing of six",
year = "2021",
month = may,
doi = "10.2105/AJPH.2021.306240",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "111",
pages = "789--791",
journal = "American journal of public health",
issn = "0090-0036",
publisher = "American Public Health Association Inc.",
number = "5",
}