Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein is Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and as Director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.
A pediatrician by training, he is a former health commissioner of Baltimore, Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration.
He is the author of The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide: Leadership and Management in Trying Times, published in 2018, and the co-author of the Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know, published in 2019, both from Oxford University Press. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.