Dr. Anthony D. So

Distinguished Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Anthony D. So, MD, MPA is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Founding Director of the Innovation + Design Enabling Access (IDEA) Initiative in the Department of International Health. His research and policy interests have spanned from health technologies in global health to antimicrobials and orphan drug products. Professor So served as an Expert Advisory Group member to the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Access to Medicines; co-chaired a technical working group on aligning pharmaceutical incentives to achieve fair pricing for the 2021 WHO Fair Pricing Forum; contributed to the Technical Advisory Group of the WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool; and was named in 2023 to the newly created Technical Advisory Group for WHO’s Market Information for Access (MI4A) to Vaccines. He has also been a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Accelerating Rare Disease Research and Orphan Product Development.

With a deep interest in antimicrobial resistance, Professor So has served as Co-Convener of the UN Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance; was part of the Antibiotic Resistance Working Group of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology; and conducted research on reengineering how antibiotics are brought to market as a recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He was a co-lead author of the UN Environment Program’s global spotlight report on the environmental dimensions of AMR in 2023.

He received his BA in philosophy and biomedical sciences, his MPA from Princeton University, and his MD at the University of Michigan. Dr. So completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and his fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of California, San Francisco/ Stanford. He serves on UAEM’s Advisory Council and as the faculty advisor to Johns Hopkins UAEM chapter as well as Public Citizen’s Board of Directors.