Stephen P. Teret, JD, MPH

Director
Center for Law and the Public's Health
Hampton House, Rm 580
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
steret@jhsph.edu

Stephen P. Teret, J.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Associate Chair for Health and Public Policy in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public's Health and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies. He previously directed the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and the Johns Hopkins Injury Prevention Center. Professor Teret holds joint faculty appointments in Pediatrics and in Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is Adjunct Professor of Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Teret has worked as a poverty lawyer and a trial lawyer in New York. Since 1979, he has been a full-time faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His work includes research, teaching and public service in the areas of injury prevention and health law. Professor Teret's work has also focused on the understanding and prevention of violence, with an emphasis on gun policy, and on bioterrorism.

Professor Teret is the author of many scholarly articles and books on the subject of injury epidemiology and prevention. He is a frequent lecturer at major universities throughout the country, and has served as a consultant to the President of the United States, the Attorney General, the United States Congress, federal agencies, and state legislatures. He is the recipient of distinguished career awards from the American Public Health Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.