Dr. Paul Campbell has focused much of his professional work on the development of public health and health care systems in this country and abroad. He has worked in many countries and regions of the world, including India, China, Poland, Zimbabwe, Morocco and the Eastern Caribbean. In Eastern Europe, he led a HSPH faculty team from 1995 to 1999 providing technical assistance to Polish national and local health leaders as they guided their nation through large-scale social, political and economic change. His research, technical assistance and training efforts overseas have been funded by unilateral government sponsors including the U.S. Agency for International Development, multilateral institutions like the World Bank, and private donors including the Hinduja Foundation in India.

Dr. Campbell’s health care work in this country for the past 20 years has centered on ambulatory care, primarily “safety net” primary care organizations serving the poor. He and Dr. Robert Hoch have developed and run educational programs for community health center (CHC) medical directors for the past 18 years. He has also completed applied research projects and provided consultation for the Bureau of Primary Care in HRSA as well as many individual provider organizations. For the past 4 years Drs Campbell and Hoch have expended their work with CHCs on the West Coast for the California Endowment and the Tides Foundation, where they have been particularly interested in the implementation of re-engineered primary care frameworks including the Chronic Care Model.

Dr. Campbell’s other major domestic interest lies in disaster or emergency preparedness. He has served as a Co-Investigator of the Harvard SPH Center for Public Health Preparedness since its inception, post 9/11. His responsibility is to lead the Center’s efforts in rural regions, in particular in Maine where he served for five and a half years as President of the Maine Center for Public Health. The Center is addressing a variety of threats from bioterrorism to emerging infections such as avian flu, to natural disasters. Dr. Campbell organized a national conference on rural emergency preparedness issues during 2004, and is currently serving as chair of a national task force addressing the needs of vulnerable populations (such as the poor and minority citizens of New Orleans suffering through Hurricane Katrina).

D.Sc., 1987, Harvard School of Public Health