Barry R. Bloom is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson II Professor of Public Health. He received a bachelor’s degree and an honorary ScD from Amherst College, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a PhD from Rockefeller University.

Bloom is widely recognized as an outstanding scientist in the area of infectious diseases, vaccines, and international health. He served as a consultant to the White House on International Health Policy from 1977 to 1978, was elected President of the American Association of Immunologists in 1984, and served as President of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in 1985. He was a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Advisory Board of the Fogarty International Center at the NIH,  and the U.S. National Vaccine Advisory Committee. In addition, Bloom was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received the first Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases, the John Enders Award of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 1994, and shared the Novartis Award in Immunology in 1998. In 2007, Bloom was given the United Nations Association of Greater Boston Leadership Award, and the Order of the Grand Cross of Makarios III, the highest medal of honor of the Republic of Cyprus.

He is currently chair of the Technical Research Advisory Committee to the Global Programme on Malaria at the World Health Organization, a member of the Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics in Oxford, UK. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

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