Harrison C. Spencer Jr. (September 22, 1944, to August 10, 2016)

Harrison C. Spencer, Jr., MD, MPH, DTM&H, CPH, died on Wednesday, August 10, 2016, in Washington, DC. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Christine M. Spencer, and two sons, Harrison (Trey) Spencer III, and Peter M. Spencer, daughter-in-law Katherine Spencer, and granddaughters Gigi and Maggie. He is also survived by two brothers and their wives, Fred and Jackie Spencer and Timothy and Ann Spencer. He was predeceased by his parents, Harrison C. Spencer, Sr., MD, and Dorothy (Stokes) Spencer and by a sister, Harriet Spencer Hoxton. At the time of his death, Dr. Spencer was president and chief executive officer of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). He joined the Association in 2000 when it was known as the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH). He led the ASPH’s transformation to ASPPH in 2013. Dr. Spencer was born at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on September 22, 1944. He lived in Baltimore until moving at the age of 6 to Abingdon, VA. After receiving his BS degree from Haverford College in 1965, Dr. Spencer received his MD degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1969. Following an internship in medicine at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, he completed residencies in medicine and preventive medicine as a member of the U.S. Public Health Service in San Francisco and at the University of California, Berkeley, CA. While at Berkeley, he received an MPH degree from the School of Public Health. In 1972, he received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. After serving at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, he returned to San Francisco to complete a residency in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco. He subsequently became board certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Spencer was affiliated with the U.S. Public Health Service and the CDC from 1970 to 1991. His service included appointments as Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC Atlanta, GA (1972–1974); Medical Officer, Central America Research Station, CDC, San Salvador, El Salvador (1975– 1977); Medical Officer, Bureau of Tropical Diseases, CDC, Atlanta (1977–1979); Senior Physician and Malaria Coordinator, Clinical Research Center, Kenya Medical Research Institute, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Medicine, University of Nairobi Medical School (1979–1984); Senior Medical Officer, World Health Organization, Geneva,