William Henry Howell was born on February 20, 1860, in Baltimore, Maryland.

[1][3] Howell served as associate professor of physiology at Johns Hopkins in 1888 and 1889.

He then served as associate professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School from 1892 to 1893.

He resigned that position to help William Henry Welch and others to establish the first graduate school of public health in the United States, the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

[1] Howell died from a heart attack on February 6, 1945, at his home at 112 St. Dunstan's Road in Baltimore.

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