Joseph Califano Jr. Biography

Joseph Anthony Califano Jr. is a former United States Secretary of Health Education and Welfare and the founder and chairman of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia) an evidence-based research organization. He has been Adjunct Professor of Public Health in Health Policy and Management at Columbia University Medical School Department of Psychiatry and School of Public Health and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Califano began his career in the military as a Navy ensign and served three years in the Office of the Judge Advocate General in Washington D.C. being released to inactive duty as a lieutenant. He also served as General Counsel of the Army and Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense the Secretary of the Army the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense and to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He continued working in government becoming the Secretary of Health Education and Welfare in 1977. After serving the Carter administration Califano formed the law firm of Califano Ross & Heineman and served as the senior partner and head of the Washington office of Dewey Ballantine. In 1992 he founded the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

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