Sherman A. James is an American epidemiologist. He is currently 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 1973–89 and at the University of Michigan as the John P. Kirscht Collegiate Professor of Public Health from 1989-2003. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000. According to GoogleScholar, his highest citations are 1151, 839 and 640.