Jo Ivey Boufford

Jo Ivey Boufford is an American physician and Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, as well as a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU Medical School.

Education Boufford attended Wellesley College for two years before transferring to earn her bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of Michigan in psychology in 1967.

She later earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School with distinction in 1971.

Career Boufford completed a residency in social medicine and between 1975 and 1982, she served as the director of the residency program at Montefiore Hospital in New York City.

In 1985, Boufford was elected President of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the largest municipal system in the United States, and was the first woman to hold the position. With the Gates Foundation, Boufford developed a global health leadership initiative through teacher trainings while focusing on Africa. Boufford is also a senior program advisor to The Commonwealth Fund. She is on the board of directors of the United Hospital Fund, the Primary Care Development Corporation, the Village Center for Care, and the International Women's Health Coalition, as well as the executive board of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (for which she served as president between 2002 and 2003).

Honors and awards Boufford has earned a number of Honorary Doctorates of Science from the University of Toledo in 2012, Pace University in 2011, New York Medical College in 2007, and State University of New York, Brooklyn in 1992. Additionally, Boufford is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the New York Academy of Medicine.

She was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship from the Institute of Medicine in 1980.

Books

Jo Ivey Boufford, Pat A. Shonubi. Community Oriented Primary Care: Training for Urban Practice. Praeger.