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Robert Blum
November 19, 2001
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University of Minnesota
Robert Wm. Blum, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Head of the Division of
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, University of Minnesota. He
has edited two books, and haas written over 220 journal articles, book chapters
and special reports. Publications that have garnered national attention
include research on Native American Youth Health (JAMA, 1992) which resulted
in congressional hearings and mental expanded health resources for Native
Youth. As a co-principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Study
of Adolescent Health (Add Health), the largest survey of American youth ever
undertaken, in 1997 Blum and his colleagues released Reducing the Risk:
Connections that Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth based on their
publication in JAMA (1997). Sixty thousand copies were distributed in
the United States and reproduced in both Australia and France. Blum's
research on risk and protective factors in youth health has been published
in French, Spanish, Chinese and Hebrew. In May, 2000, Blum was invited
to be a keynote speaker at the White House Conference on Youth. This
past fall his article (The Effects of Race, Income and Family on Adolescent
Risk-Taking Behaviors) published in the American Journal of Public Health
(90(12):1879-1884,2000) debunked the myths of race, income, and family structure
as major predictors of youth health risk behaviors and was reported as front
page news across the United States.
Dr. Blum is a Past-President of
the Society for Adolescent Medicine; has served on the American Board of
Pediatrics; was a charter member of the Sub-Board of Adolescent Medicine,
and currently serves as the Chair of the Alan Guttmacher Institute Executive
Board as well as on the Scientific Panel of the National Campaign to Prevent
Teen Pregnancy. He has recently been appointed by the National Academy
of Sciences to succeed Dr. David Hamburg as the chair for the newly formed
Commission of Youth Health and Development. He is a consultant to the
World Health Organization where he chairs the Technical Advisory Group of
the Maternal and Child Health Program as the United States representative
and serves as the United States representative on the Scientific and Technical
Advisory Group of the Human Reproductive Program of WHO as well.
Over the past six years Dr. Blum
has given 39 presentations to professional and policy groups in 23 countries.
In Latin America his work is credited as instrumental in the establishment
of the field of adolescent health. He has been awarded the Society
for Adolescent Medicine's Outstanding Achievement Award (1993) and in 1998
was the recipient of the American Public Health Association's Herbert Needleman
Award "for scientific achievement and courageous advocacy" on behalf of children
and youth.
Dr. Blum's formal training has
integrated clinical medicine and public health. He is a board-certified
pediatrician and an elected member of the American Board of Pediatrics.
Additionally, he is trained in public health with a Master's degree in Maternal
and CHild Health and an earned doctorate in Health Policy. He is considered
a leading authority in international adolescent health, adolescent reproductive
health, risk and protective factors in the lives of young people, and the
developmental needs of youth with disabilities. His research and policy
experience and training are the foundations for his expertise in the translation
of research to impact youth health policy, programs, and services.
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