John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow.
Since then Rich has been the Director of Drexel's Center for Academic Public Health Practice.
[1] Before coming to Drexel, he was associate professor of medicine and of public health at Boston University.
Rich is the Director and Founder of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the Drexel University School of Public Health.
In 2006 he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in honor of his design for "new models of health care that stretch across the boundaries of public health, education, social service, and justice systems to engage young men in caring for themselves and their peers.