Barry Bloom

Barry R. Bloom
EducationAmherst College
Rockefeller University
Known forImmunology of tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, and vaccines; Dean of Harvard School of Public Health
AwardsBristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Research in Infectious Diseases (first awardee); Robert Koch Medal; Novartis Award for Clinical Immunology
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health; Immunology; Infectious disease
InstitutionsHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Barry R. Bloom (born 1937) is an American immunologist known for his research on the immune response to infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria, and COVID-19. He is the Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Emeritus in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he served as dean of the faculty from 1998 through 2008.

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