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
New approaches to academic health center affiliations : public hospitals and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Failed retrieving data.Federal programs and Indian country : A time for reinvention
Failed retrieving data.Marijuana : current federal law remains in effect.
Failed retrieving data.Marijuana-controlled substance?
Failed retrieving data.Round table ... management development.
Failed retrieving data.US and UK health care reforms : reflections on quality.
Failed retrieving data.Primary care : Graduate medical education
Failed retrieving data.Managing the unmanageable : Public hospital systems
Failed retrieving data.Models for increasing access : strengthening community health centers & a national health service corps.
Failed retrieving data.One person's health care perspective from both sides of the Atlantic.
Failed retrieving data.Federally Supported Primary Care Training Programs and Pediatric Careers
Failed retrieving data.Community Oriented Primary Care: Training for Urban Practice
Failed retrieving data.Public hospitals in the changing health system.
Failed retrieving data.Evaluating self-help support groups for medical students
Failed retrieving data.Offshore medical school graduates - a view from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Failed retrieving data.Patients in municipal hospitals awaiting an alternate level of care.
Failed retrieving data.How federal laws are made--and what we should be doing about it.
Failed retrieving data.Team care : learning to pull together.
Failed retrieving data.Residency program in social medicine and family practice.
Failed retrieving data.Training the internist.
Failed retrieving data.Primary care residency training : the first five years
Failed retrieving data.An integrated clinical correlation course in the neurosciences for first-year medical students
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