Jim Anthony ’71 receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Michigan State University
Anthony has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Jim Anthony ’71, P ’03, P ’06 has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Michigan State University. The award recognizes long-term, exemplary efforts made during a nominee’s time at Michigan State toward advancing inclusive excellence in enduring ways that have enhanced the institution’s policies, work, climate or organization.
Jim Anthony, Ph.D., is a renowned scholar and advocate dedicated to advancing public health research and fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in academia and public health work. Currently a faculty member at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Human Medicine, Anthony has achieved distinction through a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions to epidemiology and a deep commitment to mentorship since his first faculty appointment at the University of Minnesota in 1972 and through 26 years on the public health faculty of the Johns Hopkins University before coming to MSU in October 2003.