Presenter

Organization: Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University

Position Title: Susan Bennett King Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University

Website: http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/people/faculty/james/index.html

Address:
194 Rubenstein Hall
Box 90312
Durham, NC  27708

Sherman A. James is the Susan Bennett King Professor of Public Policy Studies in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University. Prior to joining Duke University, he taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1973-89) and at the University of Michigan (1989-03). At Michigan, he was the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health with joint appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Behavior & Health Education in the School of Public Health. He was also a Senior Research Scientist in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research. Dr. James' research focuses on the social determinants of racial and ethnic health inequalities and community and policy-level interventions designed to minimize these inequalities.

Dr. James was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000. In 2001, he received the Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the Epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association for career excellence in the teaching of epidemiology. He is a fellow of the American Epidemiological Society, the American College of Epidemiology, the American Heart Association, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public Health.

A Social Epidemiologist, Dr. James received his PhD (Social Psychology) from Washington University, in St. Louis (1973.)