Robert Edward Black

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Robert Edward Black is an American physician, epidemiologist, and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] He is a leading expert on prevention of childhood mortality and diseases, especially diarrheal diseases in low- and middle-income countries.[2]

Black graduated in 1971 with an M.D. from Drexel University College of Medicine (which through merger and name change became Drexel University College of Medicine) and in 1976 with an M.P.H. from the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

His studies in Bangladesh, India, Peru and Zanzibar demonstrated that daily zinc supplementation significantly reduced the severity of diarrhea and pneumonia. These discoveries led the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF to recommend the global use of zinc for treatment of diarrhea, which has now been implemented in 40 low-income countries.[2]

In his research on childhood infectious diseases and nutritional problems, he was an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and at institutions in Bangladesh and Peru.[3] He has served as an advisor in several international organizations[4] and has received numerous honors and awards.[1]

A keystone of Dr. Black’s work is identifying promising laboratory-based observations and evaluating them in human studies, both in clinical settings and in large-scale fieldwork, and then scaling the interventions to demonstrate their potential application around the world.[5]

He has done research on "field trials of vaccines, and nutritional interventions, effectiveness studies of health programs, and evaluation of health services in low- and middle-income countries."[3]

Black was elected in 2002 to the National Institute of Medicine (which in 2015 was renamed the National Academy of Medicine).[6] He received in 2011, with Ananda Prasad and Kenneth H. Brown, the Prince Mahidol Award in Public Health,[4] in 2011 the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award,[7][2] and in 2016 the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c "Robert Black, MD, Professor". Johns Hopkns Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  2. ^ a b c "Dr. Robert Black Receives Canada Gairdner Global Health Award". Johns Hopkns Bloomberg School of Public Health. March 23, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Expert Biographies, Population and global health, Robert Black, Johns Hopkins University" (PDF). United Nations (un.org).
  4. ^ a b "Robert E. Black to Receive Prince Mahidol Award". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. November 12, 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Simple, Affordable, and Scalable Interventions to Improve Global Health". National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. May 14, 2016.
  6. ^ "Robert E. Black, M.D." National Academy of Medicine.
  7. ^ "Robert Edward Black MD, MPH, John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award 2011". Canada Gairdner Foundation.
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