Background
Dr. Joseph Gallo is a professor of mental health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research focuses on the form and presentation of depression in late life in community settings, particularly primary health care in the context of medical comorbidity.
Dr. Gallo serves as the director of the Mixed Methods Training Program for the Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
His team is currently engaged in studying the spectrum of depression in late life as well as the long-term effects of depression care on services use and mortality in late life.
Dr. Gallo received his B.S. in public health from Fordham University. He earned his M.D. from the Pennsylvania State University and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
He has been recognized with several honors, including a Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research from the National Institute of Mental Health.