Anthony Iton

Tony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, is a lecturer of health policy and management at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Previously, he served as senior vice president of programs and partnerships at The California Endowment from October 2009 to June 2024. At The Endowment, he oversaw the organization’s 10-year, multimillion-dollar statewide commitment to advance policies and forge partnerships to build healthy communities and a healthy California. Prior to that, Iton served from 2003 as both the director and county health officer for the Alameda County Public Health Department. In that role, he oversaw the creation of an innovative public health practice designed to eliminate health disparities by tackling the root causes of poor health. He has worked as an HIV disability rights attorney at the Berkeley Community Law Center, as a health care policy analyst with Consumers Union West Coast Regional Office, and as a physician and advocate for the homeless at the San Francisco Public Health Department. Iton also served for three years as director of Health and Human Services and School Medical Advisor for the City of Stamford, Connecticut. Concurrent to that, he also served as a physician in internal medicine for Stamford Hospital's HIV Clinic. In addition, Iton also served for five years as a primary care physician for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Dr. Iton, who has been published in numerous public health and medical publications, is a regular public health lecturer and keynote speaker at conferences across the nation. He earned his B.S. in neurophysiology from McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec, his J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.