Officers
Maureen Black, PhD.
Chair
David A. Sack, M.D.
President
William B. Greenough, III M.D.
Secretary
Anwar Huq, PhD.
Treasurer
Maureen Black, PhD.
Professor, University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Dr. Maureen Black is the John A. Scholl Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She also has appointments as Professor in the Center for Human Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Dr. Black, a pediatric psychologist, is the author of more than 150 publications related to children’s health and development. She received a B.A. in mathematics from Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. in occupational therapy from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Emory University. She is the director of the Growth and Nutrition clinic, a multi-disciplinary clinic that provides services to children with growth and feeding problems, and she conducts intervention trials related to children’s nutrition and development.
Dr. Black has lived and worked in Bangladesh and Peru with her family. Her husband is Dr. Robert Black, also, at Johns Hopkins, and they have two daughters.
David A. Sack, M.D.
Professor, Johns Hopkins UniversityBloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. David A. Sack is a professor in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins since 1976. From October 1999 until June 2007, he was the Executive Director of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh. After June 2007, he returned to Baltimore to resume his faculty position, and join the Child Health Foundation Board of Directors.
Dr. Sack attended Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon) and completed medical school at the University of Oregon in 1968. This was followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa, interspersed with two years as a general physician on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in eastern Montana. Dr. Sack completed formal training as an infectious disease fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1975 and has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins since then.
Dr. Sack has published over 270 papers and chapters in medical textbooks and continues his interest in new developments to improve the health of people living in poor countries.
He and his wife, Jean, live in Fallston, Maryland: they have two children and three grandchildren.
Pamela Johnson, PhD.
Executive Vice President
Voxiva
In 2001, Pamela Johnson co-founded and is now Executive Vice President of Voxiva, a social venture using information technology to support public health and safety in the developing world. She also invented an application of voice-based technology to support global disease surveillance and case management for chronic disease.
Dr. Johnson received her PhD in medical anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.
Not without some notoriety, she was once research assistant to Dr. Margaret Mead and has photos published in the National Geographic magazine.
Having coordinated AID’s global Child Survival Fund program with grants for such programs in 50 countries and a budget that grew from $25 million to $150 million annually, Pamela comes to us well versed in children’s global health.
William B. Greenough, III M.D.
Professor of Medicine and International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. William Greenough helped found Child Health Foundation in 1985. He had worked for a decade in Bangladesh and realized how important it was to have an organization in the United States that focused on effective and inexpensive measures that prevent or cure common illnesses.
Dr. Greenough is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology at Bayview Medical Center.
He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and worked for several years in the U.S Public Health Service before going to Bangladesh.
Bucky lives in Baltimore with his wife Quaneta and has five children and several grandchildren.
Rita Colwell, PH.D., D.SC.
Professor, University of MarylandBiotechnology Institute
Dr. Rita Colwell is Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology at theUniversity of Maryland and Professor at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Colwell is a nationally respected scientist and educator and is the author or co-author of 16 books and more than 600 scientific publications. She received a B.S. in Bacteriology and an M.S. in Genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington.
She lives with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Rita Colwell served as Director of the National Science Foundation from 1998 -2004 and was President of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 1991-1998. She was a member of the National Science Board from 1984 to 1990.
She has served as President of the American Society for Microbiology, International Union of Microbiological Societies, Sigma Xi National Science Honorary Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Washington Academy of Sciences. She has also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology. She is the recipient of 35 Honorary Doctor of Science degrees, including Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland); Purdue University, University of Surrey (England), and University of Bergen (Norway) and recipient of the Medal of Distinction, (Queensland, Australia) and University of Qingdao, Peoples Republic of China. Dr. Colwell is a member of federal and state agency advisory committees and boards.
Dr. Colwell has held many advisory positions in the U.S. Government, non-profit science policy organizations, and private foundations, as well as in the international scientific research community. She produced the award-winning film, Invisible Seas, and has served on editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.
Dr. Colwell is an honorary member of the microbiological societies of the UK, France, Israel, Bangladesh, and the U.S. and has held several honorary professorships, including the University of Queensland, Australia. A geological site in Antarctica, Colwell Massif, has been named in recognition of her work in the polar regions.
Dr. Colwell is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences.
Anwar Huq, PhD
Professor, University of MarylandMaryland Pathogen Research Institute
Anwar Huq, PhD is a Professor at the Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland.
Dr. Huq received a BS in Zoology and an MS in Marine Zoology from the University of Karachi, and Ph. D in Microbiology from the University of Maryland.
Prior to joining the UMD, Dr. Huq served as the Head of Microbiology Branch at ICDDR,B, Bangladesh. He has done extensive research on cholera and other enteric diseases and published over 200 papers during the past 40 years.
Dr. Huq lives with his wife Dr. Shameem Huq in Silver Spring, Maryland; they have two grown sons.
Beth D. Kirkpatrick, M.D.
Professor, The University of Vermont College of Medicine
Dr. Kirkpatrick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She founded and directs the UVM Vaccine Testing Center, which works to evaluate vaccines to prevent infectious diseases in low and middle income countries. She is principal investigator on the NIH-funded Translational Global Infectious Diseases Research (TGIR) center, which supports the next generation of biomedical scientists working on globally-important infectious diseases and vaccines. Her own work focuses on dengue/flavivirus vaccines and enteric infections, with an interest in immunologic responses to infection. She is currently (2023-2026) on the board of directors of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Kirkpatrick performed her clinical training in Internal Medicine (University of Rochester) and Infectious Diseases (Johns Hopkins). She and her husband live in Vermont and have two children.
Leonard D. Andrew
Geoffrey Arrowsmith
Mayra Buvinic, Ph.D.
Anne Bruchesi
Charles C. J. Carpenter, M.D.
Richard Cash, M.D.
John Costello
Joseph Deltito
Hugh Downs
Harold Fleming
Barry C. Gaberman
Ambassador Jean Shevlin Gerard
Lauren Harrison-White
Norbert Hirschhorn M.D.
Hazle Jeffries Shorter, M.D.
Norge Jerome, Ph.D.
Irene A. Jilson, Ph.D.
Beth Lamont
Ronald E. LaPorte, M.D.
Erik Lensch
Alex Lilavois
Shirley Lindenbaum
Eric Marler
Robert Northrup M.D.
Geoffrey Place
Charlene Riikonen
Adaline Satterwaite, M.D.
Kate Wachsmuth
Christine M. George, Ph.D.
We especially honor our Directors who have died:
M. R. Bashir
James Bausch
David E. Bell
Katherine Elliott, M.D.
William T. Mashler
Clifford A. Pease, M.D.
David Rogers, M.D.
Omond Solandt
R. Bradley Sack, M.D
Bonita Stanton, M.D.