Harvard Makes Williams First Female Dean of Public Health

CAMBRIDGE, MA - Michelle A. Williams will be the new dean of Harvard’s School of Public Health, becoming the first black person to head a faculty at the university and the first female dean of the school.

Williams, an epidemiologist and professor at the School of Public Health, will take the position in July.

She takes over David J. Hunter, who served as interim dean since Sept. 1.

Williams got her undergraduate degree at Princeton and her master’s at Tufts. She has served as chair of the epidemiology department at the School of Public Health since 2011.

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