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M. Christopher Gibbons, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Gibbons is associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was elected president-elect of the International Society for Urban Health and began his term in October 2005. Dr. Gibbons has spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins, where he trained in preventive medicine, general surgery, and molecular neurogenetic oncology.  He earned his M.P.H. with an emphasis in health promotion among urban and disadvantaged populations and the strategic management of health promotion among disadvantaged populations.

He was a senior policy fellow at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Gibbons is the founding director of the Center for Community Health Education, Advocacy and Leadership Training at Hopkins. He is a member of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions and was named a Health Disparities Scholar by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.