EDGAR BERMAN PROFESSORSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Established in 1991 by Phoebe Berman in memory of her husband
A man of exceptional talents and humanitarian concerns, surgeon EDGAR BERMAN performed the first plastic implant on a human and the first successful heart transplant on a dog. A pioneer in international family planning and rural health programs in the 1960s under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Dr. Berman was deeply moved by the many diseased and afflicted children he saw in his travels. As the head of MEDICO, he went, with his wife, to serve with Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa. (Their arrival is pictured.) Dr. Berman, who died in 1987, also was physician and confidant to the late Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
PHOEBE BERMAN was a staunch supporter of programs furthering international public health issues and brought an informed, impassioned voice to the international arena. Following her death in 1999, her estate provided a substantial endowment for the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute.
ROBERT E. BLACK, the Edgar Berman Professor of International Health and chairman of the department, is noted for his work in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including childhood diarrheal and respiratory diseases, and on nutritional deficiencies in developing countries. Dr. Black has led research on preventive interventions--including vaccines for cholera, rotavirus, and shigella, and other measures to reduce diarrhea--and has also contributed to the prevention and control of major bacterial causes of pneumonia. Dr. Black, who joined the Hopkins faculty in 1985, is the author or co-author of more than 300 scholarly publications and is an advisor on vaccine and nutritional interventions to international agencies and to the corporate sector. In 1977, he received the Alexander D. Langmuir Prize from the Centers for Disease Control. In 2001 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
A man of exceptional talents and humanitarian concerns, surgeon EDGAR BERMAN performed the first plastic implant on a human and the first successful heart transplant on a dog. A pioneer in international family planning and rural health programs in the 1960s under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Dr. Berman was deeply moved by the many diseased and afflicted children he saw in his travels. As the head of MEDICO, he went, with his wife, to serve with Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa. (Their arrival is pictured.) Dr. Berman, who died in 1987, also was physician and confidant to the late Vice President Hubert Humphrey. 
ROBERT E. BLACK, the Edgar Berman Professor of International Health and chairman of the department, is noted for his work in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including childhood diarrheal and respiratory diseases, and on nutritional deficiencies in developing countries. Dr. Black has led research on preventive interventions--including vaccines for cholera, rotavirus, and shigella, and other measures to reduce diarrhea--and has also contributed to the prevention and control of major bacterial causes of pneumonia. Dr. Black, who joined the Hopkins faculty in 1985, is the author or co-author of more than 300 scholarly publications and is an advisor on vaccine and nutritional interventions to international agencies and to the corporate sector. In 1977, he received the Alexander D. Langmuir Prize from the Centers for Disease Control. In 2001 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.