PHR Board of Directors
Robert S. Lawrence, MD
Dr. Lawrence is a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and served as a member of the Board of Directors from 1985-1991. He was reelected to the Board in 1997 and was elected its President in 1998.
He is currently the Associate Dean for Professional Education and Programs, Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventative Medicine, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins School of Medicine.
Dr. Lawrence graduated from Harvard Medical School, trained in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and served for three years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At the the University of North Carolina and as director of the Division of Primary Care at Harvard Medical School and chief of Medicine at the Cambridge Hospital, he helped develop community health service and training programs.
Dr. Lawrence chaired the first US Preventive Services Task Force from 1984-89 and served on the successor Task Force from 1990-96. He currently consults for the DCD Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Dr. Lawrence has participated in human rights missions on behalf of PHR or other human rights groups to Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kosovo.
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