Judd Walson

Judd L. Walson is an infectious disease physician whose research focuses on improving child survival, growth and development among populations in low- and middle-income settings. Walson currently holds the inaugural Robert E. Black Chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of International Health, Medicine and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins. He joined Johns Hopkins University in 2023 and continues to hold affiliate faculty appointments at the University of Washington.
He is the Co-Director of Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition Network, a research collaboration of experts from organizations across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that investigates how to reduce mortality among acutely ill children.

Education

Walson holds an MD and MPH from Tufts University and a BA in Anthropology from Pitzer College. He did his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training at Duke University and completed a fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of Washington.

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