Dona Schneider, Ph.D., M.P.H.,  is a professor and associate dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and the recipient of multiple teaching and service awards.

David E. Lilienfeld, M.D., M.P.H., is an internationally known physician epidemiologist and medical historian. He has published extensively on the history of epidemiology and public health and is the winner of the Society of Epidemiological Research's Professors' Prize in the History of Epidemiology.

Schneider and Lilienfeld are the coeditors of Public Health, Volume One (Rutgers University Press).