Sherman James

Sherman A. James is an American epidemiologist. He is the Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy, and previously taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1973 to 1989 and at the University of Michigan as the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health from 1989 to 2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.

James received an A.B. degree (psychology and philosophy) from Talladega College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973.

James is known for conceiving the term John Henryism in the 1970s. Provided by Wikipedia