This May, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School for Dental Medicine honored our own Ari Johnson, MD, with the Dean’s Community Service Award for his pioneering work in public health with Project Muso. Each year, the Dean grants this award to faculty, staff, trainees, and students in the Harvard medical community who are nominated by their colleagues and advisors.

Ari isn’t the only member of Project Muso’s team to have received this honor. Back in 2000, Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, and member of Project Muso’s Board of Advisors, was also recognized by the Dean’s office for his work with the internationally renowned global health agency, Partners in Health.

Ari, who recently graduated from Harvard Medical School, would like to accept this award on behalf of the entire Project Muso team, whose innovative and life-saving work continues to receive praise from the world’s leading medical and global health institutions.

This year’s other recipients include Richard N. Bail Jr., MD, Clinical Instructor in Population Medicine and founder of Communities Without Borders, an organization that educates children orphaned by AIDS and other vulnerable young people in Zambia; Jennifer Kasper, MD, instructor in Pediatrics and member of the Board of Directors for Doctors for Global Health, an agency that unites health professionals with communities around the world to promote social justice; Brandon R. Abbs, MD, Research Fellow in Psychiatry and advocate for People of Boston for a Better Library; and Lemanuel L. Bitsoi, EdD, who is Minority Action Plan Director at Harvard Medical School and works with the North American Indian Center of Boston, which focuses on behavioral health and employment services for North American Indian communities.