“Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.”

About Joycelyn Elders

Physician • American

Minnie Joycelyn Elders is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as the 15th Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994. She was the first African American and the second woman...