Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH, FACPM

Employer: Professor of Community Health and Preventive
Medicine and Associate Dean for
Community Health, Morehouse
School of Medicine, Atlanta GA.
Founding Chair, Department of
Community Health & Preventive Medicine, 1984-2009
Previous Employers:
• Association of American
Medical Colleges, Washington DC 2000 (sabbatical)
•Health Officer, Fulton
County Health Department, Atlanta GA, 1996-97
•World Health Organization,
Division of Human Resources for Health; Global Program on AIDS; Geneva 1991-2 (sabbatical); Smallpox Eradication
Program India 1974, Somalia 1978
•Emory University School of
Medicine, Atlanta GA 1975-80
•US Public Health Service,
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta GA 1972-75
•VISTA (Volunteers in Service
to America) 1969-70
ACPM Activities:
•Fellow, 1987 - present
•Graduate Medical Education
Committee, 2000 – 2005
•General Preventive Medicine
Regent, 2006 – 2010
•Member, Board of Governors,
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012 - present
•Member IMPriME Advisory
Committee, 2012 - present
Other Preventive Medicine Activities and Memberships:
•Association for Prevention
Teaching and Research (formerly Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine):
President, 1992-93; Chair, CDC Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee, 1999 - 2007;
Liaison to Task Force on Community Preventive Services, 1998 - 2004)
•American Public Health
Association (Medical Care Section Chair 1991- 93; APHA Governing Council 1993 -
95)
•National Board of Medical
Examiners, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Test Committee, 1987 - 90
•Editorial Board, Journal of
Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, 1991 - present
•National Advisory Council to
the National Health Service Corps, 1992 - 95
•Fellow, American Academy of
Pediatrics
Recent Honors and Awards:
•Sellers-McCroan Award,
Georgia Public Health Association, 1994
•Outstanding VISTA Volunteer
of the 1960s (awarded 1995)
•Leonard Tow Humanism in
Medicine Award, Morehouse School of
Medicine, 2005
•Distinguished Alumni
Achievement Award, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, 2009
•Duncan Clark Award, Association for
Prevention Teaching and Research, 2010
Education/Certification:
•Board-certified in Public
Health and General Preventive Medicine and in Pediatrics, Licensed in GA
•MPH, Emory University, 1986
•Rotating internship, Charity
Hospital of Louisiana, Tulane Division, 1968-69
•Residency in Pediatrics,
Charity Hospital of Louisiana, Tulane Division, 1970-72
•MD, University of Chicago,
1968
•BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin
OH 1964
ACPM Board of Regents