John A. Rich
John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Early life Rich, originally from Queens, New York City, received an A.B. in 1980 from Dartmouth College his M.D. in 1984 from Duke University School of Medicine, and an M.P.H. in 1990 from the Harvard School of Public Health. He did his internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Career In the 1990s Rich worked at Boston City Hospital as a primary care physician. In 1993, he established the Young Men's Health Clinic in Boston aimed at young men who were victims of urban violence. His work there has been published in journal papers and elsewhere. In addition to the Young Men's Health Clinic he initiated the Men's Health CREW. The Men's Health CREW is a community health-worker training program for young men of color. His book, Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men was published in late 2009 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He was the Boston Public Health Commission's medical director from 1998 to 2005. Since then Rich has been the