WilliamCheckleyMDPhD(He/Him)

Summary

• ​William Checkley, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and hold joint appointments in International Health and Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research has focused on observational studies and randomized controlled trials to combat non-communicable diseases in resource-limited settings in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on air pollution as an environmental risk factor. Dr. Checkley is Principal Investigator the NHLBI-funded trials including the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial and Late-Stage Implementation Research Addressing Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Scaling Up Proven-Effective Interventions. He is strongly committed to non-communicable disease research and clinical research training, with 387 publications in peer-reviewed journal as cited by PubMed and an h-index of 76 as cited by Google Scholar as of February 3, 2025. Finally, Dr. Checkley is the Director for the University of North Carolina/Johns Hopkins University/Morehouse School of Medicine/Tulane University (UJMT) Fogarty Global Health Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University and has mentored >100 U.S. and international trainees. ​Recent recognitions include the World Lung Health Award of the American Thoracic Society (2021), and he is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2022).