Robert Lawrence

The Center for a Livable Future Professor Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Robert Lawrence, MD is the Center for a Livable Future Professor Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. From 1970 to 1974, he was a member of the faculty of medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he helped develop a primary healthcare system funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. In 1974, he was appointed as the first director of the Division of Primary Care at Harvard Medical School where he subsequently served as the Charles S. Davidson associate professor of medicine and chief of medicine at the Cambridge Hospital until 1991. From 1984 to 1989, he chaired the first US Preventive Services Task Force of the Department of Health and Human Services and served on the successor Preventive Services Task Force from 1990 to 1995. From 1991 to 1995, he directed health sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1995 he was appointed Associate Dean for Professional Education and Programs and professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 1996 he founded the Center for a Livable Future (CLF), an inter-disciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students that focuses attention on the impact of industrial agriculture on equity, health, animal welfare, and the Earth's resources. In 2016 he retired as CLF director and from the fulltime faculty. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Public Health Association, and a co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights. Robert is the recipient of many national and international awards for his teaching, research, and humanitarian work. (Baltimore, MD)