Division of General Internal Medicine: What's New

Division's Mike Klag Becomes Dean of School of Public Health

Former Division director Michael J. Klag, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1987 and an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of heart and kidney disease, assumed the deanship of the University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health on September 1.

Klag, who earned his master of public health degree from the school in 1987, will retain his appointment with the School of Medicine, where he was formerly the David M. Levine Professor and vice dean for clinical investigation.

“Dr. Klag is the right leader to write a new chapter in the history of the world’s oldest, largest and most prominent school of public health,” said William R. Brody, president of the University, who recommended Klag’s appointment to the executive committee of the board of trustees.

“His command of national and global issues of public health, his passionate commitment to public health education and his collaborative spirit make him ideally suited to build on the extraordinary work of his predecessors, Al Sommer and D.A. Henderson,” Brody said. “He will outline a vision for global leadership in public health and ensure that the school’s faculty and students have the resources needed to execute that vision.”

“Dr. Klag is the right leader to write a new chapter in the history of the world’s oldest, largest and most prominent school of public health,” said William R. Brody, president of the University, who recommended Klag’s appointment to the executive committee of the board of trustees.

“His command of national and global issues of public health, his passionate commitment to public health education and his collaborative spirit make him ideally suited to build on the extraordinary work of his predecessors, Al Sommer and D.A. Henderson,” Brody said. “He will outline a vision for global leadership in public health and ensure that the school’s faculty and students have the resources needed to execute that vision.”