Tuesday, May 13, 2008
ABOUT RCI
Julius B. Richmond, MD
Julius B. Richmond is John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy Emeritus in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received M.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois at Chicago. At the State University of New York at Syracuse, he chaired the pediatrics Department and was Dean of the Medical School. In 1965 he was called to Washington to direct the Head Start Program. He also served as Director for Health Affairs, which initiated the Neighborhood Health Centers Program for the Office of Economic Opportunity. He returned to Syracuse in 1967. In 1971 he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School as Professor of Child Psychiatry and Human Development and became Director of the Judge Baker Guidance Center and Chief of Psychiatry at the Children's Hospital. He served as Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services and Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service from 1977 to 1981. Under his leadership, the USPHS published "Healthy People: the Surgeon-General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention." His publications concern pediatrics, child health, child development, and public health policy. He has received the Aldrich Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Martha May Eliot Award of the American Public Health Association, the Ronald McDonald Children's charities prize, the Gustave Lienhard Award of the Institute of Medicine, the Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society, the Sedgwick Medal of the American Public Health Association and the Ittleson Award of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.