Claude Earl Fox
Claude Earl Fox, MD, MPH is a public health physician who has headed federal, state and local agencies in a greater than three-decade career dedicated to equal access to health care. He is currently a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and the founding director of the Florida Public Health Institute. Dr. Fox is also one of 6 people (the only one from North America) serving on an internal pandemic influenza advisory committee to Roche Labs in Basil, Switzerland. He was previously the first permanent director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Professor of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with joint academic appointments in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and School of Medicine.
Prior to joining Hopkins, Dr. Fox served as the administrator of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration in the Department of Health and Human Services. HRSA was responsible for administration of the 2 billion dollar Ryan White/HIV AIDS program, the Office of Rural Health Policy, all federally funded community health centers, solid organ and bone marrow transplant programs and numerous health professions training programs.. While the administrator for HRSA Dr. Fox also co-chaired development and implementation of the State Child Health Insurance Program.
Dr. Fox has been a leader in public health at the federal, state and local levels. From November 1995 to March 1997, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Before that, he served as HHS regional health administrator in Philadelphia, overseeing federal health and human service programs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia. He was Alabama’s state health officer from 1986 to 1992 and Mississippi’s deputy state health officer from 1983 to 1986 and also has served as President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.
Dr. Fox is a 1968 graduate of Mississippi College, earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi in 1972 and received a master’s of public health from the University of North Carolina in 1975. He performed his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Mississippi and moved to south Florida 18 months ago . He is board certified in Prevention Medicine and Public Health and is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.