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Dr.
Julius B. Richmond is currently John D. MacArthur Professor of Health
Policy Emeritus at Harvard University. From 1983 to 1988 he was Director
of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education at Harvard University.
From 1987 to 1993 he served as Chairperson of the steering committee
of the Forum on the Future of Children and Families of the National
Academy of Sciences and served on its Board on Children and Families.
Dr. Richmond served as Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department
of Health and Human Services and Surgeon-General from 1977 to 1981.
During this time he had responsibility for administering all of the
agencies of the US Public Health Service. In 1979 he issued the report,
Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention. This report for the first time established quantitative
health goals for the nation for the next decade--a process which has
been institutionalized by the US Public Health Service through its recent
report, Healthy People 2010: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Objectives.
Dr. Richmond was trained in pediatrics and child development and pioneered
in introducing psychosocial development into pediatric education, research
and services. His collaborative work with Dr. Bettye Caldwell on the
development of young children growing up in poverty led to his appointment
in 1965 as the first director of the national Head Start program. He
also served as assistant director for health affairs of the OEO and
directed the Community Health Centers program.
Dr. Richmond has received the C. Anderson Aldrich Award of the American
Academy of Pediatrics, the Gustav O. Lienhard Award and the Walsh McDermott
Medal of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,
the John Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society, the Ronald
McDonald Award of the Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, the Sedgwick
Medal and the Martha May Eliot Award from the American Public Health
Association, the David E. Rogers Award of the AAMC, and a number of
honorary degrees. He received the John Stearns Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Medicine in l999 from the New York Academy of Medicine. His current
interests are in the area of shaping health policies with a particular
emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention, with special emphasis
on children and families. He is especially interested in the developmental
antecedents of habituation from conceptual, methodological and public
policy approaches.
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