Lester BreslowLester Breslow, MD, MPH, joined the California Department of Public Health in 1946 to found the Bureau of Chronic Diseases. He left the Department in 1967 after serving as State Health Officer to become a professor at the UCLA School of PublicHealth, then Chairman of the UCLA Medical School's Department of Preventive and Social Medicine. Thereafter, he served as Dean, UCLA School of Public Health (1972-1980), following which he retired but has continued public health activity to the present time, 2004. Read More Read Less