April 26, 2020

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, FNYAS, FRSM(UK), FAPHA, FNYAM, is a Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at StonyBrookMedicine, Stony Brook University (NY), where he served from 1971 until 2014.  He is the author/co-author/editor/co-editor of 36 books on topics ranging from the U.S. health care delivery system and medical education, through regular exercise/ wellness/athletics (multi-sport racing), to politics.  He has also published numerous articles and reviews in both the academic and the lay literature on health policy, health and wellness, athletics, and politics.  He is himself a triathlete (36 seasons, 256 multi-sport races).

On politics he publishes columns regularly on several websites.  He is a “Trusted Author” for OpEdNews.com.  He is a regular contributor to Reader Supported News/Writing for Godot; an occasional contributor to buzzflash.com and From The G-Man; and will become the Editor/Publisher of The Planetary Movement when it re-opens.  His own political website is this one: stevenjonaspolitics.com.  Among other things, it will serve as an archive for the columns that he has published on a variety of political websites since 2004.  He also posts regularly on Twitter, at https://twitter.com/tpjmagazine and on the Community pages of The Daily Kos.

Dr. Jonas’ latest book is Ending the ‘Drug War’; Solving the Drug Problem: The Public Health Approach, Brewster, NY: Punto Press Publishing, (Brewster, NY, 2016, available on Kindle from Amazon, and also in hardcover from Amazon).  His most recent book on US politics is The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022: A Futuristic Novel (Trepper & Katz Impact Books, Punto Press Publishing, 2013, Brewster, NY), and available on Amazon. 

Eventually, most of the political columns that Dr. Jonas has published over the years will be re-published on this site.  They will be organized by the webmagazines on which they were originally published.  They will each have keywords and a unique URL for this website, which will have its own search engine. 

Dr. Jonas received his B.A. from Columbia College in 1958, his M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1962, his M.P.H. from the Yale School of Public Health in 1967, and his M.S. in health management from the NYU Wagner School in 1997.  He is a widower (Chezna Newman, dec. 2018) and has three children and four grandchildren and one pussycat.