Barry Bloom
Barry R. Bloom is Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Department of Global Health and Population in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, where he served as dean of the faculty from 1998 through December 31, 2008.
Barry Bloom | |
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| Education | Amherst College |
| Alma mater | Rockefeller University |
| Known for | Secretary Treasurer for the Association of Schools of Public Health |
| Awards | Past President, American Association of Immunologists; Past President, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases (first awardee) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Public Health; Immunology; Infectious Disease |
| Institutions | Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
As dean, he served as secretary treasurer for the Association of Schools of Public Health. Prior to that he served as chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1978 to 1990, the year in which he became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he also served on the national advisory board. In 1978, he was a consultant to the White House on international health policy.