Matthew Boulton

Dr. Boulton is serving as the first Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health and Director, Office of Global Public Health.  He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency in the Dept of Epidemiology.  He is also the Associate Director of the Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center and Director of the Center of Excellence in Public Health Workforce Studies in the Dept of Health Management & Policy.  He is the former and first Associate Dean for Practice (2004-2010) and founded the Office of Public Health Practice.  Before joining the University of Michigan, he worked several years as a local health department Medical Director in four health departments and later as the governor’s Chief Medical Executive and State Epidemiologist where he was lead physician/epidemiologist for the state health department with oversight responsibility for the state’s communicable disease surveillance and control, immunization programs, environmental health, vital records and health statistics, Medicaid, substance abuse and mental health services.  He is past Vice President of the Michigan Public Health Institute, a former commissioned officer in the US FDA, and served 5 years on the CDC’s Board of Scientific Counselors for Infectious Diseases. He currently holds an appointment as Scientific Advisor to the Tianjin Centers for Disease Control in China and is on the US CDC’s MMWR Editorial Board.  His research interests are in global public, infectious disease epidemiology, childhood vaccinations and vaccine preventable disease, preventive medicine, and the health workforce.