Perry Receives Medical Award of Excellence

Henry B. Perry, III, MD, PhD, MPH, '71, senior associate in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, was recently awarded the Medical Award of Excellence by Ronald McDonald House Charities. Perry was presented with the award on November 9 at a ceremony in Rosemont, Ill.

Perry is the founder of Curamericas Global, which has carried out community-based maternal and child health programs in Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti and Liberia, benefitting almost one million people over the past 30 years. He has lived and worked abroad in more than 15 countries implementing health care programs to save children from dying of preventable diseases.