Keshia Pollack Porter, PhD

Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD ’06, MPH, an internationally recognized health policy scholar, trusted leader, and unwavering advocate for public health, became the 12th dean of the Bloomberg School on August 1, 2025.  

Pollack Porter served as the Bloomberg Centennial Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management from 2022 to 2025. As chair, she strengthened faculty mentoring and development and recruited faculty in key areas such as data science and population health, health services research, advocacy, and health equity.  

She served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Associate Dean for Faculty, and Vice Dean for Faculty from 2019 to 2022. Pollack Porter was named a Bloomberg Centennial Professor in 2021 for her leadership as director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy and has served on leadership teams with the Center for Health Disparities Solutions and the Center for Injury Research and Policy, among others. 

Her scholarship draws on injury epidemiology and health impact assessment to identify policies that create safe, healthy, and equitable environments where people live, work, play, and travel.

Pollack Porter was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. She has led numerous federally funded research studies, published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and reports, and influenced public health practice through leadership roles with the CDC and the National Academies.