Susan Pardee Baker

Susan Pardee Baker is a professor emeritus of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an injury prevention expert. She served as the first director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Encouraged by her husband, Timothy D. Baker, a late professor of international health at Johns Hopkins, she earned her Master's in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1968. Baker received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University North Carolina in 1998.

Career After earning her MPH, Baker joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty as a research associate. She quickly became an assistant professor of public health administration in 1971, and associate professor of health science administration with a joint appointment in environmental health services in 1975.

Research interests For over forty years, Baker has expanded the field and study of injury prevention and made it a priority in public health, both research and policy-wise. As a licensed private pilot, she has conducted plane crash analyses in the Colorado Rockies and on commuter and instructional aircraft crashes, having served on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board from 1996 to 2000.