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Michael Rozier, SJ

Associate Professor of Healthcare Administration, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives

Lake Shore Campus


Father Michael Rozier, SJ is Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor of Health Care Administration. His research focuses on the use of moral rhetoric in health policy, the influence of health technology on personal and organizational values, and the ethics of population health. In 2008, Rozier served as an ethics fellow with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and in 2019, he served as a GeoEthics Fellow with the American Geographical Society. Rozier serves on the board of directors and the sponsor board of SSM Health Care Corporation, the advisory board for the Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health, as well as on the board of trustees of Marquette University and St. John’s College in Belize.

Education

  • Ph.D., Health Services Organization and Policy, University of Michigan
  • S.T.L., Moral Theology, Boston College
  • M. Div., Boston College
  • M.H.S., International Health Systems, Johns Hopkins University
  • B. A., Chemistry, Saint Louis University

Publications

Selected

  • Rozier, Michael, et al. "Personal location as health-related data: Public knowledge, public concern, and personal action." Value in Health9 (2023): 1314-1320.
  • Rozier, Michael. "The Role of Mercy in Public Health Policy." The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly2 (2022): 257-264.
  • Rozier, Michael D., Kavita K. Patel, and Dori A. Cross. "Electronic health records as biased tools or tools against bias: a conceptual model." The Milbank Quarterly1 (2022): 134-150.
  • Markovitz, A. A., Ryan, A. M., Peterson, T. A., Rozier, M. D., Ayanian, J. Z., & Hollingsworth, J. M. "ACO awareness and perceptions among specialists versus primary care physicians: a survey of a large Medicare shared savings program." Journal of General Internal Medicine2 (2022): 492-494.
  • Rozier, Michael D., and Phillip M. Singer. "The good and evil of health policy: Medicaid expansion, republican governors, and moral intuitions." AJOB Empirical Bioethics3 (2021): 145-154.
  • Rozier, M. D., Willison, C. E., Anspach, R. R., Howell, J. D., Greer, A. L., & Greer, S. L. "Paradoxes of professional autonomy: a qualitative study of US neonatologists from 1978‐2017." Sociology of Health & Illness8 (2020): 1821-1836.
  • Rozier, M. D., Ghaferi, A. A., Rose, A., Simon, N. J., Birkmeyer, N., & Prosser, L. A. "Patient preferences for bariatric surgery: findings from a survey using discrete choice experiment methodology." JAMA surgery1 (2019): e184375-e184375.
  • Rozier, Michael. "Religion and public health: Moral tradition as both problem and solution." Journal of religion and health3 (2017): 1052-1063.
  • Rozier, Michael D. "Structures of virtue as a framework for public health ethics." Public Health Ethics1 (2016): 37-45.