Dileep G. Bal

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rdf:langString Dileep G. Bal

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rdf:langString Director of the Pima County Health Department

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rdf:langString Deputy director of the Pima County Health Department

rdf:langString Director of the California Cancer Control Branch and Tobacco Control Section

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rdf:langString Dileep G. Bal (born c. 1945) is an Indian-American physician, epidemiologist, and public health administrator. He is also a faculty member of the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and previously of the University of California School of Medicine at Davis and the University of Arizona College of Medicine. As a public servant, health advocate and academic researcher, his areas of focus include tobacco control, cancer and obesity prevention, and remedying socio-economic disparities in health care. Bal's career as a public servant spans 46 years but he is best known for initiating and overseeing a two-decades-long anti-tobacco campaign beginning in 1989 while serving as director of California's Cancer Control Branch and Tobacco Control Section, subdivisions of the Department of Health Services. Previously, he held the position of Pima County Health Director in Tucson, Arizona. He has also served as a president of the American Cancer Society's (ACS) local unit, a state division, and later served a term as president of the nationwide ACS organization in 2001.