Sherman A. James is an American epidemiologist.
King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and previously taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1973 to 1989 and at the University of Michigan as the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health from 1989 to 2003.
He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.
[5] James is known for conceiving the term John Henryism in the 1970s.
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