H. JACK GEIGER

• Born: November 11, 1925
• Died: December 28, 2020
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• Profession: Physician, Civil Rights Activist

Herman J. Geiger, known as H. Jack Geiger, was an American physician and civil rights activist. He was a leader in the field of social medicine, the philosophy that doctors had a responsibility to treat the social as well as medical conditions that adversely affected patients' health, famously (and controversially) writing prescriptions for food for impoverished patients suffering from malnutrition. He was one of the doctors to bring the community health center model to the United States, starting a network that serves 28 million low-income patients as of 2020.