Ann Dozier ’77, ’96N (PhD), professor of public health sciences, has been named the Albert David Kaiser Chair of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She was also appointed chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, where she has served as interim chair since July 2014. She also holds appointments at the Center for Community Health and the School of Nursing. The Board of Trustees approved the appointments in January.
In 2015, she assumed leadership for the first ever New York State–funded Maternal and Infant Health Center of Excellence, a five-year project that provides training, technical assistance and evaluation to more than 40 community organizations across the state that serve at-risk mothers. She was also selected as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2015.
Dozier, who joined the University faculty in 1999, focuses her research and fieldwork on maternal and child health, with an emphasis on reducing infant mortality and more recently improving breastfeeding among low-income women and. The scope of her work entails identifying barriers to improving maternal child health and birth outcomes, evaluating and identifying the most effective ways to overcome these challenges, and working with providers and other health and human service organizations to promote the adoption of best practices and improve outcomes on a community-wide scale. While much of her current work focuses on underserved communities in Rochester and New York state, Dozier has also been a collaborator on public health projects in Costa Rica, India, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, and Tibet.