Professional Profile
Dr. James Black is a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, he focuses on technical assessments of AI-enabled biological risks and related solutions.
He trained as a medical doctor at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London, earned his PhD in computational cancer biology from University College London, and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Francis Crick Institute. Dr. Black has a strong record in basic science, with expertise across multiple disciplines, including bioinformatics, computational evolutionary biology, and the genotype–phenotype relationship.
