The Jo Ivey Boufford Page

She was an advisor to Assistant Secretary for Health Philip R. Lee during his service in the Clinton Administration, and was Acting Assistant Secretary for Health after Lee's departure until Satcher took over.

Official US DHHS biography

1979-1980 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship at the Institute of Medicine. Vice President for Medical and Profession Affairs at New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. (HHC), 1982 to 1985; President of HHC from 1985 to 1989. Visiting International Fellow in Comparative Health Systems of the King's Fund College, London from 1989 to 1991, Director from 1991 to 1993. Appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, US DHHS, in 1993 (principal advisor to Assistant Secretary for Health Philip R Lee), and Acting Assistant Secretary for Health after Lee's resignation in 1997.

IOM Roundtable

Institute of Medicine Roundtable meetings in 1995 and 1996 were a summit for members of the health fascist organizations and government agencies, from which their report "Healthy Communities: New Parnerships for the Future of Public Health" was concocted. They were funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Kellogg Foundation. Members included Margaret A. Hamburg, Jo Ivey Boufford, Nancy Kaufman of RWJF, Roz Lasker, and William L. Roper. David Satcher and Kenneth I. Shine attended.

"Developing Healthy People 2010" Inaugural Meeting, 4-21-1997

Former DHHS Secretary Donna Shalala and Deputy Secretary Kevin Thurm; Boufford; former Assistant Secretaries for Health DuVal, Lee, Richmond, and Windom (Brandt, Edwards, and Mason not present); HHS Operating Division Heads including David Satcher (CDC) and Claude Earl Fox (HRSA).

Boufford appointed Dean of Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, 6-1-1997

The Pew Trusts

Jo Ivey Boufford and the usual suspects (Roz Lasker, Philip R. Lee, Steven A. Schroeder of RWJF) served as the "Policy Experts with Whom Health and Human Services Program Staff Consulted." RWJF Vice President Paul Jellinek was also a member. Pew Trust HHS Director Maureen K. Byrnes had a 2000 budget of $41,238,000. They call this, "Public Voices, Public Choices."

1998 Carola Warburg Rothschild Award, Maternity Center Association

Carola Warburg Rothschild was President of MCA from 1951 to 1964, and had been one of Mary Lasker's fellow Directors on the Board of the Birth Control Federation of America between 1939 and 1942.

Commonwealth Fund Program Monitoring Committee

With Edwin N. Brandt Jr; Philip R. Lee; also George Lundberg, editor and chief of Medscape (May 2001); without Brandt (Jan. 2002).

Board of Directors of the United Hospital Fund of New York City, 2000

The Council on Foreign Relations

Jo Ivey Boufford is a member of the legendary Council on Foreign Relations, 2001.

The Milbank Memorial Fund

Boufford is on the Technical Board of the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002.

Pan American Health Organization

Boufford is on the Advisory Board of the Pan American Health Organization of the WHO, along with Mohammad N. Akhter of the American Public Health Association; William H. Foege, of the CDC's "Healthy People" program; former CDC Director Jeffrey Koplan; and Timothy E. Wirth, President of Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation.

Project HOPE

Boufford is a director of Project HOPE, which in addition to its pr front of the hospital ship also publishes the "Health Affairs" journal, which shamelessly apes the CFR's "Foreign Affairs." Other directors include AIG Chairman Maurice Greenberg and James T. Lenehan, Worldwide Chairman of Consumer Pharmaceuticals and Professional Group, and member of the Executive Committee of Johnson & Johnson (whose corporations interlock); former Surgeon General Louis W. Sullivan; and Charles A. Sanders, emeritus director of Research!America and principal of the Washington Advisory Group.

Harvard School of Public Health

Current members of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard School of Public Health include Margaret A. Hamburg, the daughter of David A. Hamburg; Clinton administration Acting Assistant Secretary for Health Jo Ivey Boufford; Karen Davis; Steven A. Schroeder of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Mary Woolley of Research!America. Former Rep. Paul G. Rogers has been on the Dean's Council since 1998.

cast 08-21-03