About the Authors
Tomás J. Aragón is the health officer of the City and County of San
Francisco, and director of the Population Health Division (PHD) at the
San Francisco Department of Public Health. Striving to embody
and promote the universal values of dignity, equity, compassion and
humility, he works to convene, connect and catalyze communities and
institutions to transform narratives, policies and systems toward a
sustainable culture of equity, healing and health for all people and
our planet. As health officer, he exercises leadership and legal
authority to protect and promote equity and health. As PHD director,
he directs public health services. He teaches population health data
science (with R) at the University of California, Berkeley School of
Public Health. He maintains a public health blog with a practice-based
focus on population health equity, leadership, lean, and data
science at https://taragonmd.github.io.