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Professor of the Practice, Dept. of Intl. Health; Director, IDEA Initiative, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Anthony So is the second Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is founding director of the IDEA (Innovation+Design Enabling Access) Initiative and director of the Strategic Policy Program for ReAct—Action on Antibiotic Resistance, a global network working to curb the challenge of antimicrobial resistance. Formerly, Anthony served as director of the Program on Global Health and Technology Access at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. For the previous five years, he served as associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Health Equity Program. Prior to joining the foundation, Anthony directed the activities of the Liaison Office for Quality (1997-98) as senior advisor to the Administrator at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under HHS Secretary Donna Shalala. During 1995 and 1996, he served as Shalala's White House Fellow, and from 1992 to 1995, he was a Senior Medical Research Associate at the American College of Physicians. He currently serves on the boards of Public Citizen and Community Catalyst as well as on the Advisory Council of Princeton University’s Center for Health and Well Being and the Advisory Board of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. He recently had been part of the Expert Advisory Group of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. In a six-year, combined program at the University of Michigan, he received his B.A. in philosophy and biomedical sciences and his M.D. He earned his M.P.A. from Princeton University as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and served as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCSF-Stanford. Anthony is a member of the 1998 class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.