University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Social Medicine
360 Wing C Med School
Chapel Hill
NCUSA
27517-9017
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Desmond Runyan is professor of social medicine and of pediatrics and clinical professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina. He is the National Program Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. He completed his MD and a pediatric residency at the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in public health and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of North Carolina. He is board certified in pediatrics and in preventive medicine. Runyan has completed numerous studies of child abuse since 1974. More recently, he has worked with scholars in Egypt, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and Chile to increase child abuse knowledge among medical faculty internationally and with WHO to study child abuse epidemiology.