Barry Bloom

Head of Faculty: Harvard School of Public Health, United States of America

Barry Bloom PhD

Academic positions:
- Dean of Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health
- Chair Emeritus of the International Vaccine Institute
- Member of the Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics
- Member of the Earth Institute External Advisory Board at Columbia University
- Member of the United Nations Development Programme: Millennium Development Goals Working Group on Tuberculosis
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Former consultant to the White House on International Health Policy
- Dr Bloom is a former member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Advisory Board of the Fogarty International Center at the NIH, the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. National Vaccine Advisory Committee

Any industry positions (in the last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Bloom continues to pursue an active interest in bench science as the principal investigator of a laboratory researching the immune response to tuberculosis, a disease that claims more than two million lives each year.

Any other information:
Dr Bloom is past president of the American Association of Immunologists and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Head of Faculty: Public Health & Epidemiology (since 16 November 2005)

Barry Bloom is a Head of Faculty for the PUBLIC HEALTH & EPIDEMIOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Head of Faculty is to help divide the Faculty (specialty) into Sections (sub-specialty areas), nominate leaders in those areas as Section Heads, and offer ongoing advice on the strategic direction of the service. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/barry-bloom/