Three Bloomberg School School Elected to National Academy of Medicine | Johns Hopkins

Three Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professors have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, together with two colleagues from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Membership within the NAM, thought-about one of many highest honors within the fields of well being and drugs, acknowledges people who’ve demonstrated excellent skilled achievements and dedication to service. The announcement was made through the NAM’s annual assembly in Washington, D.C., on October 20. This 12 months’s class contains 100 new members. 

“We are proud to have three of our faculty recognized by the Academy for their groundbreaking and influential public health work,” says Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, Bloomberg School Dean and Bloomberg Centennial Professor. “Through their scholarship and leadership, they are shaping the future of their fields and helping us deliver on our School’s mission of improving health for all people.”

The Bloomberg School’s NAM Class of 2025:

Pamela Collins, MD, MPH, is a Bloomberg Centennial Professor, chair of the Department of Mental Health and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Mental Health. She works on the intersections of worldwide psychological well being, HIV care, and concrete well being for adolescents and adults. Her present tasks combine psychosocial interventions into routine HIV take care of adolescents dwelling with HIV and into community-based care with faith-based suppliers in sub-Saharan Africa, and he or she explores city responses to youth psychological well being wants within the U.S. Through management on the National Institute of Mental Health, she launched analysis initiatives to construct the proof base for integration of psychological well being interventions into HIV care, major care, maternal well being companies, and power illness care in low- and middle-income international locations. Collins is a scientific advisor to PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program, and has served on the National Advisory Mental Health Council. She is a co-director of the Johns Hopkins-Emory University Center for HIV and Mental Health Stigma Elimination Strategies. She has a joint appointment on the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 

Collins earned her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, an MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a BA from Purdue University.

Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, AM, is the Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Professor and Chair within the Bloomberg School’s Department of Biostatistics. She develops and makes use of statistical strategies to assist be taught concerning the results of public well being applications and insurance policies, with functions throughout public well being, together with psychological well being, substance use, and violence prevention. Her present analysis tasks embrace creating approaches for customized public well being utilizing a number of information sources, designing strategies for assessing and enhancing the generalizability of randomized trial outcomes to focus on populations, and partnering in collaborations estimating the consequences of state insurance policies. Stuart has been acknowledged on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers lists (high 1% of citations) since 2021, and was a part of the group that gained the 2025 Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association for work estimating the consequences of abortion restrictions within the U.S. Stuart has joint appointments on the Bloomberg School’s departments of Health Policy and Management and Mental Health. She beforehand served as government vice dean for Education on the Bloomberg School.

She earned her PhD and an AM in statistics from Harvard University, and a BA in arithmetic from Smith College.

Donald Warne, MD, MPH, (Oglala Lakota), serves as co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health and is a tenured full professor on the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the place he additionally served as Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy. A number one doctor and one of many world’s foremost students in Indigenous well being, training, coverage, and fairness, Warne not too long ago led the event of recent Doctor of Public Health and Master of Public Health Indigenous Health concentrations on the Bloomberg School, each launching within the 2026–2027 educational 12 months. His present analysis contains power illness prevention, and advancing well being fairness via community-driven, culturally grounded approaches. An enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Warne comes from a protracted line of conventional healers and drugs males. He additionally serves as senior coverage advisor to the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board. Warne’s profession spans medical care, coverage, and academia; highlights embrace his roles as founding chair of the departments of Public Health and Indigenous Health at North Dakota State University and University of North Dakota.

Warne earned an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine, an MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a BS from Arizona State University.

Charlotte J. Sumner, MD, a professor within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s departments of Neurology, Neuroscience, and Genetic Medicine, and Victor E. Velculescu, MD, PhD, a professor of oncology, pathology, drugs, and genetic drugs on the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, had been additionally elected to the NAM this 12 months.

Since the NAM’s founding in 1970, the work and suggestions of its members have formed well being analysis, follow, and insurance policies that enhance well being and well being outcomes worldwide.

New members are elected by present members via a selective course of that acknowledges individuals who have made main contributions to the development of medical sciences, well being care, and public well being. The NAM at the moment has greater than 2,000 members.

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