Claude Earl Fox, director of the
Johns
Hopkins Urban Health Institute, will leave Baltimore
next month to accept a new position at the University of
Miami.
Fox will join the university's Department of
Epidemiology and Public Health and assist Miami's
president, Donna Shalala, in developing public health
outreach programs in Florida.
Before coming to Johns Hopkins in 2001, Fox had worked
for Shalala as administrator of the Health Resources and
Services Administration, an agency in the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. Shalala was then HHS
secretary.
As its first permanent director, Fox has shaped the
Urban Health Institute, an organization created in 2000 to
focus resources from across Johns Hopkins on health and
related problems affecting residents of East Baltimore and
Baltimore City. Formation of the institute had been
recommended by a joint faculty and community Urban Health
Council, appointed by President William R. Brody.
"I want to thank Dr. Fox for his dedicated service to
Johns Hopkins and the East Baltimore community," university
Provost Steven Knapp said, "and congratulate him on his
appointment to an exciting and important new role at
Miami."
Knapp said he will be consulting with the institute's
executive committee and advisory board on the search for
new leadership. Fox, he said, has offered to continue with
Johns Hopkins on a part-time basis to ensure continuity in
the months after he steps down as director.
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