Susan Bartlett Foote is a writer, lawyer, historian, and health policy expert. She is professor emerita in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She was an associate professor at the University of California – Berkeley, Legislative Counsel in the U.S. Senate, and consultant and advisor to government agencies and health organizations. She is widely published in her field of health and technology policy and is the author of Managing the Medical Arms Race: Innovation and Public Policy in the Medical Device Industry and The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946-1954, winner of a 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Born and raised in San Francisco, she is a 20 year resident of Saint Paul.