Sheppard G. Kellam

Sheppard G. Kellam, M.D., is a public health psychiatrist. In 2000 he came to the American Institutes for Research to develop a new Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in Schools. He was chair of the Department of Mental Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1982-1993, and is now professor emeritus. Since 1983, in partnership with the Baltimore City Public Schools System and with Morgan State University, he has led three generations of epidemiologically based randomized field trials. The 2,311 first graders from the first trial have now been followed into early adulthood. From 1963 through 1982, he led school based randomized intervention studies in Woodlawn, an African American community in Chicago, with the oversight of a board of community organization leaders. In 1996 he was awarded the Rema Lapouse Award for lifetime contributions to public health and prevention science by the American Public Health Association. In 1999 the World Federation for Mental Health presented him their Distinguished Public Mental Health Award. In 1998 he was the first president elected by the full membership of the rapidly developing Society for Prevention Research.