Jo Ivey Elizabeth Boufford
Jo Ivey Elizabeth Boufford
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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
Marijuana: current federal law remains in effect.
Boufford, J. I., & Richard, M. M. (n.d.).Publication year
1997Journal title
Connecticut medicineVolume
61Issue
4Page(s)
229-230Round table ... management development.
AbstractBoufford, J. I., Hunter, D., Wall, A., & Glascott, F. (n.d.).Publication year
1993Journal title
The Health service journalVolume
103Issue
5366Page(s)
20-22AbstractManagement development in the NHS has reached a hiatus, yet there are no apparent moves from the centre to address this. The Journal brought together senior figures from the four dedicated management development providers in an informal round table discussion, chaired by Rob MacLachlan, to open the debate.US and UK health care reforms: reflections on quality.
Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1993Journal title
Quality in health care : QHCVolume
2Issue
4Page(s)
249-252Primary care: Graduate medical education
Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1992Journal title
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine: Journal of Urban HealthVolume
68Issue
2Page(s)
193-206Managing the unmanageable: Public hospital systems
AbstractBoufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1991Journal title
The International Journal of Health Planning and ManagementVolume
6Issue
2Page(s)
143-154AbstractThere are significant challenges to those who work in large public health care delivery systems: political imperatives; resource constraints; sometimes rigid personnel systems; and, the reality that everything occurs in a public forum. The fact that many nations are reviewing and, in some instances, restructuring their national health care systems, has added to the complexity and feeling of continual turbulence experienced by their managers. State run systems like that in the United Kingdom are introducing market forces to increase effectiveness and value for money; while market systems, like that in the United States, are increasing regulatory interventions to achieve the kind of cost control available to countries with large public systems which operate with global budgets. Public hospitals in the United States offer examples of public institutions operating in a highly competitive market environment. A decade of management changes undertaken to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest public hospital system in the United States, is presented as a case study of public health services and public management in a market environment.Models for increasing access: strengthening community health centers & a national health service corps.
Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1990Journal title
Journal of health care for the poor and underservedVolume
1Issue
1Page(s)
107-115 discussion 123One person's health care perspective from both sides of the Atlantic.
Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1990Journal title
Michigan hospitalsVolume
26Issue
9Page(s)
20-21Federally Supported Primary Care Training Programs and Pediatric Careers
Shelov, S. P., Alpert, J. J., Rayman, I., Straus, J. H., Fallon, S., & Boufford, J. (n.d.).Publication year
1987Journal title
American Journal of Diseases of ChildrenVolume
141Issue
1Page(s)
65-66Community Oriented Primary Care: Training for Urban Practice
Boufford, J. I. M., & Shonubi, P. A. (n.d.). (1–).Publication year
1986Public hospitals in the changing health system.
Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1986Journal title
American journal of public healthVolume
76Issue
1Page(s)
12-13Evaluating self-help support groups for medical students
AbstractGoetzel, R. Z., Croen, L. G., Shelov, S., Boufford, J. I., & Levin, G. (n.d.).Publication year
1984Journal title
Journal of Medical EducationVolume
59Issue
4Page(s)
331-340AbstractSelf-help support groups for medical students represent one strategy for dealing with the emotional stresses of medical training and the diminished human sensitivity of students that often accompanies that experience. Support groups at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine were evaluated by 26 students who completed a nine-part questionnaire. The respondents indicated that they were primarily drawn to these groups because of a desire for social affiliation and an opportunity to express their feelings in a “safe” environment. Members shared in the leadership responsibilities of the group and dealt with external personal problems of the students rather than with the internal group dynamics. The gains derived from participation in these groups included opportunities for nonprofessional contact with faculty members, getting help and support from fellow students, and participation in stimulating discussions about the medical field. Students rated the groups as “meaningful” and expressed a desire for more frequent meetings.Offshore medical school graduates - a view from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1984Journal title
New York State Journal of MedicineVolume
84Issue
7Page(s)
358-360Patients in municipal hospitals awaiting an alternate level of care.
Rothenberg, E., Berson, A., Cunningham, L., Brill, M. F., Kleinbart, S., & Boufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1984Journal title
Pride Institute journal of long term home health careVolume
3Issue
1Page(s)
13-19How federal laws are made--and what we should be doing about it.
Boufford, J. (n.d.).Publication year
1982Journal title
Journal of the American Medical Women's AssociationVolume
37Issue
5Page(s)
115-117Team care: learning to pull together.
Boufford, J. (n.d.).Publication year
1980Journal title
The InternistVolume
21Issue
9Page(s)
13-15Residency program in social medicine and family practice.
Boufford, J. (n.d.).Publication year
1979Journal title
Journal of Ambulatory Care ManagementVolume
2Issue
2Page(s)
66-71Training the internist.
Primary care residency training: the first five years
AbstractBoufford, J. I. (n.d.).Publication year
1977Journal title
Annals of internal medicineVolume
87Issue
3Page(s)
359-368AbstractThe training of physicians for the delivery of primary care is becoming a national priority. The period of residency training is viewed by many as the focal point for educational change to meet this demand. The Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center was begun in 1970 and offers primary care residency training toward board eligibility in internal medicine, pediatrics, or family practice. The pairing concept of scheduling guarantees the resident a continuity of care experience for his own panel of patients at the ambulatory site. The hospital and the ambulatory site share the cost of residents' salaries. Primary care curriculum for clinical and clinical-support areas, delivery-site design, and faculty-utilization models must all be uniquely suited to the training of the future primary care practitioner. Resident recruitment and selection and the involvement of residents in the management of the residency program are crucial features of program success and training for future practice.An integrated clinical correlation course in the neurosciences for first-year medical students
AbstractTalalla, A., Boufford, J. I. M., & Lass, S. L. (n.d.).Publication year
1974Journal title
Journal of Medical EducationVolume
49Issue
3Page(s)
253-263AbstractAn increasing number of medical schools are undertaking substantial curricular revisions embodying such concepts as small group teaching, early patient contact, and active student participation in the learning process, all within the organ system approach to learning. One system that seems especially suited to the new approach is that of the neurosciences. A clinical correlation course in the neurosciences was conducted for freshman medical students at the University of Southern California in 1970. Twenty three instructors, all practicing clinicians and most of them neurosurgeons, provided small group experiences for the 98 students during the seven week course. This report contains a description of the design, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of the course and of the major factors which contributed to its successful outcome. The evaluation data provide some interesting insights into this teaching learning process that are applicable to many educational experiences.