Dr. Harrison Spencer is the President and CEO of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). He previously served as Dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.  Prior to going to London, Dr. Spencer was Dean of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.During a career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), he served as an epidemic intelligence service officer and at the field station in El Salvador. He founded and directed the CDC research station in Nairobi, Kenya for 5 years and then served as Senior Medical Officer at the Malaria Action Program of the World Health Organization in Geneva.  Before going to Tulane, he was Chief of the Parasitic Diseases Branch at CDC. A graduate of Haverford College, his medical degree is from Johns Hopkins, and he has a Masters in Public Health degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the University of London. He is board certified in internal medicine and preventive medicine; is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Spencer was elected a Founding Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 and to the U.S. Institute of Medicine in 2003.