John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at

Drexel University Drexel University is a private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, a financier and philanthropist. Founded as Drexel Institute of Art, ...

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, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006

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Early life

Rich, originally from

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, received an A.B. in 1980 from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

his M.D. in 1984 from

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, and an M.P.H. in 1990 from the

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. He did his internship and residency at

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Career

In the 1990s Rich worked at

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as a

primary care physician A primary care physician (PCP) is a physician who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis. The ter ...

. In 1993, he established the Young Men's Health Clinic in Boston aimed at young men who were victims of urban violence. His work there has been published in journal papers and elsewhere. In addition to the Young Men's Health Clinic he initiated the Men's Health CREW. The Men's Health CREW is a community health-worker training program for young men of color. His book, ''Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men'' was published in late 2009 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He was the Boston Public Health Commission's medical director from 1998 to 2005. Since then Rich has been the Director of Drexel's Center for Academic Public Health Practice. Before coming to Drexel, he was associate professor of medicine and of public health at

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. In 2007, he received an honorary Doctor of Science from Dartmouth College. He has been featured in the 2001 documentary film "The Angry Heart", produced by Jay Fedigan. Rich is the Director and Founder of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the

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. Since 2008, Rich has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.

Awards

In 2006 he was awarded the

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

in honor of his design for "new models of health care that stretch across the boundaries of public health, education, social service, and justice systems to engage young men in caring for themselves and their peers." Other Awards: * President's Award from the

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* Healthy Hero Award from Roxbury Community College * William A. Hinton Award from the

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References

MacArthur Fellows

External links

Official web site at Drexel
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