Professor & Chair of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
College of Human Medicine
Michigan State University

Email: janthony@msu.edu
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James C. (Jim) Anthony, Ph.D. earned his bachelor's degree from Carleton College in 1971, his M.Sc. from the University of Minnesota in 1975, his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1977, and a postdoctoral fellowship award at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (1977-78).

At Minnesota, his Ph.D. doctoral advisors were Drs. Albert I. Wertheimer (chairman , pharmacy sciences) and Leonard M. Schuman (chairman, epidemiology). At Johns Hopkins, he studied with Drs. Ernest M. Gruenberg and Morton Kramer (mental hygiene), as well as Drs. Paul McHugh and Marshal Folstein (psychopathology). His first and second academic appointments were as an Instructor at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy (1972-77), and as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health (1978-89, with appointments in the departments of mental hygiene and also in epidemiology).

After 11 years, he earned promotion to tenured Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he worked until October 2003. When he was a professor at Hopkins, his faculty appointments were in mental hygiene and epidemiology within the school of public health and in psychiatry and behavioral sciences within the school of medicine. Starting in October 2003, his appointment at MSU was as professor and chairman of the department of epidemiology in the College of Human Medicine.

His research accomplishments appear in more than 200 published articles and books, and have been recognized in awards and honors, including designation as a 'highly influential' contributor to the research literature of 'psychology/psychiatry' and 'general social sciences' based on epidemiological studies of psychiatric and other behavioral disturbances (www.isihighlycited.com). He has been elected to serve as President of the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Omega Society, the premier public health honors society in the world, and is current chairman of the Section of Epidemiology and Public Health of the World Psychiatric Association, although he is an epidemiologist and is not a psychiatrist. His other voluntary and elected memberships and fellowships include the following: Society of Epidemiologic Research (since 1977), American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 1977), American Public Health Association (since 1977), American Psychopathological Association (elected fellow), American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (elected member), College on Problems of Drug Dependence (elected member), and World Psychiatric Association Section on Epidemiology and Public Health (elected chairman, 2001-present).

He is an NIH Senior Scientist awardee, with a K05 Senior Scientist award to support his research activities, as well as continuous NIH R01 award support since the early 1980s, and he has been founding director for two NIH-funded drug dependence epidemiology training programs, one for US citizens (now in its 12th year of funding) and one for epidemiologists from overseas (now in its 4th year of funding). He maintains a focused attention on the research career development of new investigators, and more than a dozen of his trainees have become NIH principal investigators. He is most appreciative of awards such as nomination for the Golden Apple Award for Teaching and the accomplishments of his many research trainees over the years. His goals for the MSU department of epidemiology include recruitment of distinguished new faculty members in biostatistics, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, and chronic disease epidemiology, as well as development of the department's postdoctoral and predoctoral training programs, and new linkages to other units of Michigan State University, especially new Principal Investigators based elsewhere in the medical school, in the colleges of osteopathic and veterinary medicine, and the other colleges and units of the university.