Dr Robert Lawrence is the Center for a Livable Future Professor Emeritus at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health & Engineering. Dr Lawrence is a co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights and has conducted investigations in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Master in the American College of Physicians, and the recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism Prize in 2002 and the Sedgwick Medal of the American Public Health Association in 2009.