Ruth Roemer was an American lawyer and public health researcher who championed the importance of human rights in the field of public health.
13 Facts About Ruth Roemer
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Ruth Roemer was the elder of two girls; her younger sister was Hilda Rosebaum.
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Ruth Roemer planned to teach, but changed her mind after traveling to post-WWI Europe with the American Student Union.
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In Canada, Ruth Roemer worked as a researcher with the Royal Commission on Agriculture and Rural Life in Saskatchewan.
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At Cornell, Roemer worked with Professor Bertram F Wilcox as the associate director of a research project investigating the admissions decisions of New York mental hospitals.
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Ruth Roemer is perhaps best known for her work crafting international tobacco control policy.
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Ruth Roemer was an active member of the American Public Health Association since joining the organization in 1967.
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Ruth Roemer served on several APHA committees and was elected president of the organization in October 1986 and served a one-year term.
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Ruth Roemer was the seventh woman elected to the presidency of the association since it was founded in 1872.
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Ruth Roemer taught health policy, law and ethics at UCLA's school of public health for over 40 years.
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Ruth and Milton Roemer had two children, John E Roemer and Beth Roemer Lewis.
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Milton Ruth Roemer died of heart failure on January 3,2001, at the age of 84.
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Ruth Roemer died of cardiac arrest on August 1,2005, at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in West Los Angeles, California.