Lewis Robbins, MD, MPH
- At a Glance
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Leadership
- Dean MacKenzie
- Deans
- Chairs
- Faculty Senate
- Student Assembly
- Staff Assembly
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Health Advisory Board
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Board Members
- Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS '73
- Andrea D. Willis, MD, MPH '99, FAAP
- Ashok Agarwal, MPH '84
- Brian D. Crawford, PhD '82
- Caroline Popper, MD, MPH '90
- Catharine C. Dorrier
- Chereé M. Haswell Johnson, JD
- Christopher Anzalone
- Christopher I.M. Jones
- Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD
- Constance R. Caplan, MA '78
- Dave Hickey
- Dean Goodermote
- Deborah Levy, PhD '97, MPH
- Douglass B. Given, MD
- Edward J. Ludwig, MBA
- Faith Thomas, JD
- George L. Bunting, Jr.
- Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD '98
- Ira M. Rutkow, MD, PhD '81, MPH '78
- Irene C. Frary, MBA
- Joseph A. Boystak, MPH '77
- Karl P. Ronn
- Kathleen Ludwig
- Kelvin A. Baggett, MD, MPH '05
- Manfred Eggersdorfer, PhD
- Margaret Conn Himelfarb, MPH '04
- Marion Bergman, MD
- Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH '87
- Michael Kullman
- Nikos Pavlidis, MSc
- Pamela Hoehn-Saric
- Randolph "Randy" Gordon, MD, MPH '88
- Ravi Kavasery, MD
- Robert Carr, MD, MPH '86, FACPM
- Robert J. Abernethy, '62
- Roberta L. Schwartz, PhD, MHS '94
- Rodrigo A. Sierra, MBA
- Roger C. Lipitz
- Shale D. Stiller, MLS '77
- Sister Charlotte Kerr, RN, BSN, MPH
- Stephen G. Moore, MD, MPH '93
- Suprotik Basu, MHS `02
- Thomas McCann
- William C. Clarke III
- William Flumenbaum
- Committee Structure
- Philanthropic Impact
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Board Members
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Student Life
- Campus
- Baltimore
- Strategic Priorities
- Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity (IDARE)
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History
- Timeline
- Deans of the School
- Mike Bloomberg
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Heroes of Public Health
- Abel Wolman
- Abraham Lilienfeld, MD, MPH
- Alexander Langmuir, MD, MPH
- Anna M Baetjer, ScD
- Annelies S. Zachary, MD, MPH
- Annelies S. Zachary, MD, MPH
- Annik A. Rouillon, MD, MPH
- B. Frank Polk, MD, MSc
- Bernard Roizman, ScD
- Bill Gates, Sr.
- Carroll E. Palmer, MD, PhD
- Elmer V. McCollum, PhD
- Emanuel Kaplan, ScD
- Ernest L. Stebbins, MD, MPH
- Frank Hurley
- Fred Soper, DrPH, MPH
- Frederik Bang, MD
- George Comstock, MD, DrPH, MPH
- George W. A. Dick, MBChB, MPH
- Gilbert Otto, ScD
- Harry G. Day, ScD
- Helen Abbey, ScD
- Henry E. Sigerist, MD, PhD
- Herald R. Cox, ScD
- Jae-Moe Yang, MD, MPH, DMSc
- Jo Eirik Asvall, MD, MPH
- John H. Hanks, PhD
- Justin Andrews, ScD
- Kenneth Maxcy, DrPH
- Leo Kaprio, MD, DrPH, MPH
- Leroy E. Burney, MD, MPH
- Lewis Robbins, MD, MPH
- Lloyd E. Rozeboom, ScD
- Margaret Merrell, ScD
- Mo-Im Kim, DrPH, MPH
- Nowshir Jungalwalla, MD, MPH
- Paul V. Lemkau, MD
- Raymond Pearl, PhD
- Robert W. Hegner, PhD
- Ross Gauld, DrPH MPH
- Russell E. Morgan, MD
- Sushila Nayar, MBBS, DrPH, MPH
- Timothy Danforth Baker, MD, MPH ’54
- Virginia Apgar, MD, MPH
- William Henry Welch, MD
- William W. Cort, PhD
- Yolanda Nashio
- Centennial 2016
- What is Public Health?

Lewis Robbins was a saltwater fisherman and boater. One of his favorite sayings was "Instead of trying to salvage a sinking ship once it has crashed, a good sea captain will change the course when he sees danger ahead." It was a goal he reached as a physician and scientist.
Dr. Robbins pioneered the philosophy of "prospective medicine," linking behavioral health risks to the patient's survival prospects.
In 1958-59, he wrote the first U.S. surgeon general's warning on the health hazards of tobacco, helping to launch medicine's war on smoking. Dr. Robbins' papers reflect his efforts to educate physicians in emerging techniques of screening patients for breast, cervical, and rectal cancer.
Dr. Robbins was in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1941-68 and for eight years was the first chief of cancer control programs. He served in each state in the U.S. and 23 foreign countries, and was one of the first Americans in Vietnam. While there, he fought malaria and guerilla troops.
After retirement in 1968, Dr. Robbins worked with a program to advise physicians on ways their patients could have what he called "a survival advantage" by changing poor lifestyle habits.