Mathuram Santosham is an Indian American physician who is Professor and Chair at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
In the final year of his degree he received word that his mother, Flora, had suffered a significant stroke and died whilst visiting family in Baltimore.
[1] Santosham established a successful research trial in the Fort Apache Indian Reservation which both demonstrated the impact of pedialyte and showed that sick infants get better faster if they ate food throughout their illness.
[5] In 1991 Santosham founded the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health (CAIH), which he directed for fifteen years.
[6] His efficacy studies of the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine in Navajo children resulted in the near-elimination of the virus in North America.
He subsequently launched the $37 million GAVI Alliance Hib Initiative, which looked to deploy the conjugated vaccine in developing countries.