Tracey Perez Koehlmoos PhD, MHA

Education

Davidson College: BA cum laude
University of South Florida, College of Public Health: MHA
Univeristy of South Florida, College of Public Health: PhD

Biography

Professor & Director of Doctoral Programs in Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics
Director, Center for Health Services Research
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Dr. Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos joined the faculty of the Uniformed Services University in July 2015 in order to lead the development of a robust health services administration and policy research and graduate programs in support of the US Military Health System. She is the Director of the Center for Health Services Research and the Director of Doctoral Programs in Public Health, with core teaching and graduate student advising responsibilities at USUHS and the National Defense University. Previously she served as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. With more than 200 publications and multimedia products, Dr. Koehlmoos is a health systems and policy scientist who specializes in leading complex tasks, program development and capacity building across the spectrum of health systems building blocks. Prior to transitioning to domestic and defense healthcare, she lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia. She cut her teeth in public health leading the Health & Family Planning Systems Programme at ICDDR,B in Dhaka Bangladesh. Her research areas of interest include health equity, value based care, women’s health, systematic review, and health and National Security. She has served as the National Secretary of the Gold Star Wives of America and is the the Deputy Chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee. A former Army Air Defense Artillery officer, she is the widow of COL Randall “Moose” Koehlmoos and mother of CPT Robert, Michael, and 1LT David Koehlmoos.

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