Robert Edward Black is an American physician, epidemiologist, and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a leading expert on prevention of childhood mortality and diseases, especially diarrheal diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Black graduated in 1971 with an M.D. from

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(which through merger and name change became

) and in 1976 with an M.P.H. from the

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. In his research on childhood infectious diseases and nutritional problems, he was an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and at institutions in Bangladesh and Peru. He has served as an advisor in several international organizations and has received numerous honors and awards. Black was elected in 2002 to the National Institute of Medicine (which in 2015 was renamed the National Academy of Medicine). He received in 2011, with

Ananda Prasad Ananda Shiv Prasad (1928 – February 5, 2022) was an Indian-born American doctor specialising in the role of zinc in the human metabolism. Biography Prasad was born in Buxar, Bihar, British Raj in 1928. He studied first at Patna Medical Colleg ...

and Kenneth H. Brown, the Prince Mahidol Award in Public Health, in 2011 the

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, and in 2016 the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award.

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