Keshia Pollack Porter

Keshia M. Pollack Porter is an American injury epidemiologist and policy researcher who specializes in health equity and promoting safe environments. She is the Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also holds a Bloomberg Centennial Professorship.

Life

Pollack was born in Rockville Centre, New York to Yvonne Pollack. She earned a B.A. in sociology with a certificate in community health from Tufts University in 2000. She completed a M.P.H. in chronic disease epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health in 2002. In 2023, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Personal life Pollack met Edward Porter, an IT supervisor from Alliance, Ohio in April 2015. They married on September 2, 2017 at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Washington DC. They reside in Middle River, Maryland.