Jeffrey V Lazarus is a full professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and the head of the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal. His decade-long career at WHO Europe was followed by serving as the Vice-Chair of the EASL International Liver Foundation and as the first director of Health Systems Global and of Healthy Livers Healthy Lives. He currently serves as the director of the Global Think-tank on Steatotic Liver Disease and head of MASH Cities. He is the author of more than 500 publications. In 2023 he was the recipient of the American Liver Foundation Distinguished Scientific Achievement award and in 2025 the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Public Service Award.