Board President, Veterans for Peace

Susan Schnall was an active-duty Navy nurse (LTJG) during the American conflict in Vietnam. In 1969, she was tried and found guilty by a general court-martial for: conduct unbecoming of an officer for dropping anti-war leaflets over five military bases in the San Francisco Bay area, and wearing her uniform in the GI and Veterans March for Peace on October 12, 1968, in San Francisco. Susan is currently President of the national board of directors of Veterans for Peace and president of the New York City VFP chapter. She has been active in the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Medical Aid for Indochina, and the GI coffeehouses. In 2006, Susan was awarded the medal for peace and friendship between peoples by the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations.

For 31 years, Susan was the executive administrator responsible for the departments of Quality/Risk/Care Management, Regulatory Affairs, and Medical Records at a number of public hospitals in New York City, retiring from Bellevue Hospital Center in 2006.

Susan Schnall was an Assistant Adjunct Professor at New York University, School of Professional Studies, Healthcare Management for 25 years. In April, 2015, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities by Ohio Wesleyan University.

Susan is a member of the core of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility and a member of Vietnam Veterans Against War. She organized and led a delegation of Science/Public Health professionals to Vietnam in 2013 to survey the land that had been contaminated by the US use of Agent Orange/dioxin and visit the people who had been harmed by the chemicals. In August, 2016, she presented a paper on the Health Effects on American Service Members who served in Vietnam at an international conference on Agent Orange/dioxin in Hanoi. For several years, she organized scientific panels on Agent Orange at the American Public Health Association’s annual meetings.