About the Program

Robert Dana Bradshaw, MD, MPH
Dr. Bradshaw is an Associate Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and Medical Director of the Student Health Center and Occupational Health for the EVMS Medical Group. Previously, while joint faculty at the EVMS MPH program, he was also Project Director for the multi-institution collaborative Commonwealth Public Health Center Training grant. Prior to coming to EVMS he held a position as District Health Director of the five county Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District of the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) for three years, following 28 years of service as an Air Force medical officer. While in the military, Dr. Bradshaw was Program Director of the General Preventive Medicine (GPM) Residency at Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, MD and faculty in Preventive Medicine and Biometrics. During his military career he also held positions as Director of Military Health System programs at the DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System and as Chief of Preventive Medicine for the AF Surgeon General, in addition to faculty positions in Family Medicine at USU and at a Family Medicine residency program. At the AF Surgeon General’s office, Dr. Bradshaw was privileged to serve on the Armed Forces Epidemiology Board, as DoD representative to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as AF liaison to the US Preventive Services Task Force, and on CDC's Yellow Fever Vaccine Safety working group. For the past decade he has taught the board review course on “Clinical Preventive Medicine – Infectious Disease” for the American College of Preventive Medicine. He received his MD degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1980 and Master of Public Health from USU in 1997, after completing his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Abilene Christian University in 1976. He is specialty trained in both Family Medicine and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, and completed the faculty development fellowship in Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. He has active medical licensure in the states of Virginia and Texas. His interests and expertise include the epidemiology of infectious diseases, global health and travel medicine. He has traveled to 50 countries internationally, including field malaria research in Kenya and short term medical missions to Bangladesh, Peru, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
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