Jo Ivey Elizabeth Boufford
Jo Ivey Boufford
Director of the Doctor of Public Health Program
Clinical Professor of Global and Environmental Health
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Professional overview
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Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Global Health at the New York University School of Global Public Health and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. She is President Emeritus of The New York Academy of Medicine and Immediate Past President of the International Society for Urban Health (2017-9). She served as Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University from June 1997 to November 2002. Prior to that, she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from November 1993 to January 1997, and as Acting Assistant Secretary from January 1997 to May 1997. While at HHS, she was the U.S. representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1994–1997. She served in a variety of senior positions in and as President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal system in the United States, from December 1985 until October 1989. In NYC, she currently serves on the Board of the United Hospital Fund, is Vice Chair of the NYS Public Health and Health Planning Council (PHHPC) and Chair of its Public Health Committee. Nationally, she is on the Boards of the National Hispanic Health Foundation and the Health Effects Institute. She was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Medicine (formerly IOM) in 1992, served on its Board on Global Health, and served two four year terms as its Foreign Secretary from 2003 to 2011, She was elected to membership of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2015. She is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Boufford attended Wellesley College for two years and received her BA (Psychology) magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, and her MD, with distinction, from the University of Michigan Medical School. She is Board Certified in pediatrics.
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Education
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BA, Psychology (Magna Cum Laude), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MIMD, Medicine (with distinction), University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
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Honors and awards
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Honorary Doctorate of Science, Toledo University, Toledo, OH (2012)Honorary Doctorate of Science, Pace University, New York, NY (2011)Top 100 Most Influential Women, Crain's New York Business (2007)Honorary Doctorate of Science, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY (2007)Honorary Doctorate of Science, State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY (1992)Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship, Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC (1980)
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Areas of research and study
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Aging and the Life CourseGates FoundationHealth DisparitiesHealth PromotionInternational HealthNew York City Health and Hospitals CorporationPrevention InterventionsPublic AdministrationPublic Health ManagementPublic Health PolicyPublic Health SystemsUS Department of Health and Human ServicesWorld Health Organization
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Publications
Publications
Fostering capacity building and multidisciplinary urban health research in Latin America
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Failed retrieving data.COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally
Failed retrieving data.The Lancet Commission on pollution and health
Failed retrieving data.Advancing an Age-Friendly NYC
Failed retrieving data.How to address non-communicable diseases in urban Africa
Failed retrieving data.Systems science simulation modeling to inform urban health policy and planning
Failed retrieving data.Focusing on Health to Advance Sustainable Urban Transitions
Failed retrieving data.Innovating healthcare delivery to address noncommunicable diseases in low-income settings : The example of hypertension
Failed retrieving data.The interacademy partnership’s young physician leaders : A leadership training and networking program
Failed retrieving data.Urban health in the post-2015 agenda
Failed retrieving data.The challenge of attribution : Responsibility for population health in the context of accountable care
Failed retrieving data.The challenge of attribution : Responsibility for population health in the context of accountable care
Failed retrieving data.The challenge of attribution: who is accountable for population health?
Failed retrieving data.Urban Health: Global Perspectives
Failed retrieving data.Fatal flows - Doctors on the move
Failed retrieving data.Fatal flows - Doctors on the move
Failed retrieving data.Leadership development for global health
Failed retrieving data.The future of the public's health : Vision, values, and strategies
Failed retrieving data.Critical Issues of Public Service Education
Failed retrieving data.Health policymaking: the role of the federal government
Failed retrieving data.Healthcare in a land called peoplepower : Nothing about me without me
Failed retrieving data.Setting the global agenda for health
Failed retrieving data.Andrew Pattullo Lecture. Health future : the managerial agenda.
Failed retrieving data.Crisis, leadership, consensus : The past and future federal role in health
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