Epidemiologist Dr. Sherman A. James is the Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Previously he was the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health from at University of Michigan from 1989-2003. He also taught at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1973-1989. Before attending graduate school, her served in the U.S. Airforce from 1964-1969 where he was promoted to Captain.
Dr. James is the member of numerous professional societies. He is a Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology, the American Epidemiological Society, the American Heart Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He has also served on numerous editorial boards and held assistant editorships at the American Journal for Public Health (2003-2006) and Ethnicity and Disease (1991-1995). He has served on many National Institutes for Health committees and other national and internal committees.
Dr. James earned his A.B. in Psychology and Philosophy from Talladega College and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Washington University. While at Talladega, he was a DeForest Scholar and received several awards: the Whiton Writing Award, the Buell Gordon Gallagher Award for Scholarship and Service, and the Rockefeller Foundation Protestant Fellowship Award.
