Research contributor
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor; James F. Fries Professor of Medicine; Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Health equity and communication
Her source record connects general internal medicine with health equity and patient-physician communication.
- General internal medicine
- Her clinical discipline in the source record.
- Health equity
- The focus of the Johns Hopkins center she directs.
- Patient-physician communication
- A confirmed topic connecting her clinical and health-services work.
Health-equity perspective
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she directs the Center for Health Equity. A general internist, she has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a MacArthur Fellow.
Faculty work and training
Medicine, equity, and health services
General internist, social epidemiologist and health services researcher; on the Johns Hopkins faculty since 1994; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor since 2017; James F. Fries Professor of Medicine; founder and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.
Education and training
- BA, Emory University, 1984
- MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988
- MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1993
- Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center
- Postdoctoral fellowship, Johns Hopkins
Sources for this contributor record
Her Johns Hopkins provider profile and publication record are the verification sources for the visible biography.