Milton Terris (April 22, 1915 – October 3, 2002) was an American public health physician and epidemiologist.
He was head of the Chronic Disease Unit of the New York City Public Health Research Institute from 1960 through 1963.
In 1964 he became professor and chair of the department of preventive medicine at New York Medical College, serving in that role until his retirement in 1980.
[3] After retirement, he founded the Journal of Public Health Policy in 1980 and served as its editor until his death in 2002.
[4] He joined with several other past presidents of APHA in 1980 to found the National Association for Public Health Policy and served as president of that organization until 1993.