Naor Bar-Zeev, PHD, MBBS(HONS), MPH, MBIOSTAT
- About
- Collaborators
- Programs
-
Research and Practice
- Our Work in Action
-
Programmatic Transition
- Conversations on Sustainable Financing for Development
- Moving from Emergency Response to Post-Recovery: Lessons and Reflections from Ebola
- Polio Eradication: Status, Transition and Legacy
- Supporting Operational AIDS Research (SOAR): Assessing the Geographic Pivot
- The Avahan Experience in India
- Workshop on Strategic Issues in Global Health Program Transitions
-
Centers and Research Groups
-
Research Groups
- Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative at JHSPH
- Initiative to Advance Implementation Science in Nutrition
- International Institute for Primary Health Care-Ethiopia
- Mission Afghanistan 2030
- Sight and Life Global Nutrition Research Institute
- The IDEA Initiative
- The India Primary Health Care Support Initiative (IPSI)
- The Self-Empowerment and Equity for Change Initiative (SEE Change)
-
Research Groups
-
People
- Autumn Tangney: An Enduring Legacy
-
Faculty
- Faculty Recognition: Excellence in Teaching
- Mathuram Santosham, MD, MPH, ’75
- Primary Faculty Within the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program Area
- Primary Faculty Within the Health Systems Program Area
- Primary Faculty Within the Human Nutrition Program Area
- Primary Faculty Within the Social and Behavioral Interventions Program Area
- Kidist Dugassa: Manifestation in Practice
- Postdoctoral Fellows
- Students
-
Alumni
- Alumni Profile: Anita Dam
- Alumni Profile: Lani Rice Marquez
- Alumni Profile: Nimi Georgewill
-
Alumni Profiles: Where Are They Now?
- Allyson Nelson, MSPH ’15
- Alumna Interview | Rebecca Merrill, PhD ’10, MHS ‘07, Senior Epidemiologist, CDC
- Alumni Profile: Brigitta Szeibert, MSPH ’23, RD
- Andrew Nicholson, MSPH '17
- Andrew Thompson, MSPH '12
- Caitlin Quinn, MSPH '17
- Chytanya Kompala, MSPH
- Collrane Frivold, MSPH ’17
- Elizabeth "Libby" Watts, MHS '17
- Katherine Tomaino, MSPH ’14
- Lianne Marie Gonsalves, MSPH '13
- Marie Spiker, MSPH '14, RD program
- Mariya Patwa, MSPH '18
- Mary Qiu, MSPH '16
- Prianca Reddi, MSPH '20
- Tomoka Nakamura, MSPH '15
- Q&A with Alumna Jess Atwell
- Information for MSPH Practicum Preceptors
-
News and Events
- 2024 Vaccine Day at Johns Hopkins
-
The Globe Newsletter
-
The Globe | Summer 2019
- Bestselling Author Johnny Saldaña Leads Qualitative Data Workshops
- Faculty Profile | Smisha Agarwal, PHD, MPH, MBA
- Faculty Speaks at UN: Launch of Journal Series on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- From the Chair
- International Health Faculty Key Contributors to First WHO Guideline on Digital Interventions for Health Systems Strengthening
- International Health Faculty Presents Expert Recommendations On Antimicrobial Resistance to UN Secretary General
- International Health Faculty Receives NIH Fogarty Funding to Establish Research Ethics Training Program in Ethiopia
- International Health Faculty Wins Award for Innovation in Nutrition and Health in Developing Societies
- International Health Student and Faculty Publish New Vaccine Safety Book
- Student Spotlight | Maria Garcia Quesada, MSPH '19
- Student Spotlight | Ryan Thompson, MSPH '19
-
The Globe | Summer 2018
- Alumna Profile | Collrane Frivold, MSPH ‘17
- Alumna Profile | Katherine Tomaino, MSPH ‘14
- Alumni Reunion | The Program in Applied Vaccine Experiences (PAVE)
- Faculty Profile | Haneefa Saleem, PHD ’14, MPH ’09
- Faculty Profile | Naor Bar-Zeev, PHD, MBBS(HONS), MPH, MBIOSTAT
- From the Chair
- Student Practicum Spotlight | Greg Rosen, MSPH Candidate
- Student Spotlight | Nukhba Zia, PHD Candidate
-
The Globe | Summer 2019
- Contact
- Make a Gift
- Info for Current Students
Associate Professor, International Health
Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Program

The Department of International is pleased to welcome Naor Bar-Zeev, PhD, MBBS(Hons), MPH, MBiostat. Dr. Bar-Zeev joins the Department's Global Disease Epidemiology and Control (GDEC) Program and the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC). Dr. Bar-Zeev’s work in IVAC will include serving as lead investigator on a seven-country randomized clinical trial of azithromycin in childhood diarrhea and as co-investigator on a randomized trial of a novel neonatal rotavirus vaccine, as well as establishing a typhoid cost-of-illness study in Malawi, in collaboration with PATH.
Dr. Bar-Zeev brings 20 years of experience in global child health across East Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Prior to joining the Bloomberg School, Dr. Bar-Zeev was a Reader (Associate Professor) in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Liverpool, UK. While in Malawi, he worked as a vaccine epidemiologist at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, where he led the Vaccines Research Group, and as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. In 2011, Dr. Bar-Zeev helped establish VacSurv, a multi-site national vaccine surveillance program in Malawi. Prior to his work in Malawi, Dr. Bar-Zeev worked in Darwin, Australia, and with the Western Pacific Regional Office of the WHO in Mongolia, Cambodia and the Pacific. He has also worked in Kenya, Tanzania, and Vietnam.
Contributor: Swati Sudarsan, Advocacy and Communications Specialist, IVAC