Odis Johnson Jr., PhD

Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Social Policy and STEM Equity at Johns Hopkins University, and the Edmund W. Gordon Chair of Social Policy and Evaluation at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). At Hopkins, Dr. Johnson has faculty appointments in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Education as Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, and in the Department of Sociology. He also directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) Institute in Critical Quantitative and Computational Methodologies (ICQCM). Dr. Johnson’s work on the interrelated topics of social policy, data science, and race has been funded by the NSF, NIH, Joyce Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation.