Albert Wu, MPH, MD
Internist
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Albert W. Wu is a practicing general internist who joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1991 and the Fred and Juliet Soper Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He holds joint appointments in Epidemiology, International Health, Medicine, Surgery, and the Carey Business School.
Dr. Wu is an expert in research on quality of care and patient-reported outcomes research with over 500 publications and book chapters. He was among the first researchers to measure quality of life outcomes in people with HIV and, he co-founded the Outcomes Committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the NIH ACTG. He has studied the handling of medical errors since 1988 and has published influential papers including “Do house officers learn from their mistakes” (JAMA 1991) and “Medical error: the second victim” (BMJ 2000). He was a member of the Institute of Medicine committee on Preventing Medication Errors, and Senior Adviser to the World Health Organization Patient Safety program in Geneva from 2007-2009 where he continues as a consultant.
Dr. Wu has held several leadership positions at Johns Hopkins, and in the field of health services research. He directed the AHRQ Johns Hopkins DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness) Center from 2006-2014. He directed the AHRQ-funded T-32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Training Grant in Health Services Research from 2013-2019 and leads the online Master of Applied Science in Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality. He was also director of the Center for Meaningful Measures at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (2017-2022), where he is currently Director of Strategic Collaborations. Since 2011, he has served as director of the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR) in the Department. He was Interim Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in 2021-2022.
Dr. Wu is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management (Sage) and has served on dozens of advisory panels, consultancies, and boards. He was elected to the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society in 2012, received the Ernest Lyman Stebbins Medal in 2016, was named a 2021 COVID-19 Hero by The Daily Record, and received the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr Award for Community Service from the Johns Hopkins University and Health System.
