H. Jack Geiger, MD, MSciHyg, is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Human Rights, a founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a founding member and past president of the Committee for Health in South Africa, and a founding member and national program coordinator of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
Geiger has led or participated in human rights missions for PHR, the United Nations, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science to former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Kurdistan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and South Africa. Most of his professional career has been focused on the related issues of health, poverty, and civil rights. Geiger initiated the community health center model in the United States, founding and directing the nation's inaugural community health centers, the first in Columbia Point, Boston and the second in the Mississippi Delta. These centers became models for what is now a national network of more than 1100 CHCs serving some 20 million low-income and minority patients.