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Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born Minnie Lee Jones; August 13, 1933) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 1993 to 1994. A vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps , she was the second woman, second person of color , and first African American to serve ...
Joycelyn Elders (born 1933) September 8, 1993 December 31, 1994 1 year, 114 days – Rear Admiral Audrey F. Manley (born 1934) Acting: January 1, 1995 July 1, 1997 2 years, 180 days – Rear Admiral J. Jarrett Clinton (1938–2023) Acting: July 2, 1997 February 12, 1998 226 days 16 Admiral [a] David Satcher (born 1941) February 13, 1998 ...
Joycelyn Elders. Joycelyn Elders was born a sharecropper’s daughter and would go on to become the first Black U.S. Surgeon General in 1993. Before then-President Bill Clinton helped Elders make ...
[4] [5] [6] The first National Masturbation Day was held on May 7, 1995, after sex-positive retailer Good Vibrations declared the day in honor of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired by President Bill Clinton in 1994 for suggesting masturbation be part of the sex education curriculum for students.
Jerome Adams joins other former surgeons general in calling for better public health preparation.
Dr. Stacy Sims, an internationally-renowned exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist, describes the way we have started to look at midlife in recent years as, “a sociocultural shift.” A24
Joycelyn Elders was the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States in 1993. [25] Effie O'Neal Ellis in 1970 became the first African American woman to work as an administrator at the American Medical Association. [73]
The U.S. Surgeon General's warning of an increased risk of cancer from drinking alcohol may end up resonating most with younger Americans - who in recent years were already turning to mocktails ...