Judd L. Walson

Judd L. Walson is an infectious disease physician whose research focuses on improving child survival, growth and development among populations in low- and middle-income settings. Walson currently holds the inaugural Robert E. Black Chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of International Health, Medicine (Infectious Disease) and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins.

He is the Co-Director of Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network (CHAIN), a research collaboration of experts from organizations across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that investigates how to reduce mortality among acutely ill children.

Education Walson holds an MD and MPH from Tufts University and a BA in Anthropology from Pitzer College. He did his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training at Duke University and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of Washington.

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