Prof. Leonard Rubenstein

Leonard Rubenstein is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Director of the Program on Human Rights, Health and Conflict. He is part of the core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Center for Humanitarian Health, in addition to being a non-resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Professor Rubenstein previously served as a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace,and was the Executive Director and President of Physicians for Human Rights. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Professor Rubenstein also found and chairsthe Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, a group of humanitarian, human rights, and health professional groups and academic centers working to protect the wounded and sick, health workers, and health infrastructure.  He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Professor Rubenstein has published extensively in academic journals and major media and is the author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War (Columbia University Press, 2021). He has received numerous awards, including the Carl E. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in International Health and the Sidel-Levy Award for Peace of the American Public Health Association.