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Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933) is an active health policy leader, minority health advocate, author, physician, and educator.
Louis Wade Sullivan was born in 1933 and grew up in rural Georgia.

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Louis Wade Sullivan, MD (Second African-American U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services)

Louis Wade Sullivan was born in 1933 and grew up in rural Georgia. He matriculated at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, graduating in 1954 with a BS in premedical programs. Sullivan earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, entering as the only African-American in his class and graduating third in his class in 1958. Following medical school, Dr. Sullivan trained at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

In the mid-1970s, Dr. Sullivan returned to Morehouse where he helped establish the Morehouse School of Medicine and was appointed founding dean. In 1989, under President George H.W. Bush, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan was appointed U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), making him the second African-American to serve in this role.

Patricia Roberts Harris was the first person and first African-American to serve as secretary of the newly reorganized Department of Health and Human Services in 1980.

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan served as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1989 to 1993. He was the founding president of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Academic Medical Career

Born in Atlanta on November 3, 1933, Louis Wade Sullivan was the second of two sons born to Lubirda and Walter Sullivan. Most of Sullivan’s childhood was spent in Blakely, where his father moved the family in 1937 to open Early County’s first, and only, Black funeral parlor. In 1944 Sullivan’s mother, a teacher, moved back to Atlanta to complete graduate work in education at Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University), and she took her sons with her. There they attended Booker T. Washington High School, and in 1950 Sullivan entered Morehouse College, where he graduated magna cum laude four years later. He then proceeded to earn his medical degree, cum laude, from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1958. Sullivan completed his internship and residency at New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center, specializing in hematol

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By John P. Rees and James Labosier ~

A new archival collection, the Louis W. Sullivan Papers, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in the history of the Department of Health and Human Services, Morehouse School of Medicine, public and minority health programs, and racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions.

The Louis W. Sullivan Papers consists of correspondence, speeches, briefing files, subject files, news clippings, photographs, videotapes, and awards and honors that predominantly document Louis Sullivan’s tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989-1993. His pre- and post-HHS career as a hematology research scientist and medical educator, health policy expert, promoter of healthy lifestyles, advocate for improving health equity and disparities for Black and underserved populations, and increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions are also documented.

Louis Wade Sullivan was born November 3, 1933 in Atlanta, Ga., however the family moved to Blakely, Ga. shortly thereafter. His moth