Bobbie Berkowitz

Bobbie Berkowitz is currently the dean emerita and professor of nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She is professor emerita at the University of Washington School of Nursing where she served on faculty for 14 years.

Prior to her appointment as dean at Columbia, she was the alumni endowed professor of nursing and chair of the department of Psychosocial and Community Health and adjunct professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Her primary research relates to public health systems, health disparities and health equity. Her major grant funding includes principle investigator (PI) of the NIH P20 Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research, PI and director of the National Program Office for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Turning Point Initiative (1996 through 2006) and PI for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, Public Health Experience with Health Disparities (2007-2010). Previous appointments include deputy secretary for the Washington State Department of Health and chief of nursing services for the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health.

Dr. Berkowitz has served on a number of boards and commissions including Hanford Environmental Health Foundation, Washington State Board of Health, Washington Health Care Commission, Washington State Academy of Science, National Academy of Medicine Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Public Health Foundation and chair of the Board of Trustees of Group Health Cooperative. She is the immediate past president of the American Academy of Nursing and currently serves as a member of the board of trustees for the New York Academy of Medicine and the Report Review Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in Nursing Science from Case Western Reserve University and master of nursing and bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Washington.