ANN ARBOR, MI — Dr. Charles Holmes, a physician-scientist with extensive experience in international health policy, has been recommended to lead the University of Michigan School of Public Health following a national search, according to a May 28 University Record update.
Holmes will begin a five-year dean appointment July 1, pending Board of Regents approval at its June 25 meeting in Ann Arbor. He will succeed Lynda Lisabeth, who has served as interim dean since June 2025.
The appointment brings Holmes back to UM, where he earned his Master of Public Health in 1995, the update states. He currently serves as the inaugural director of Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation in Global Health and as a professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine…