Robert Edward Black is an American physician, epidemiologist, and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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.
[1] 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.
[5] 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,[6][2] and in 2016 the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award.