UC Davis names director of new Institute for Population Health Improvement

Kenneth W. Kizer, one of the nation’s pre-eminent authorities on public health and health care quality improvement, has been named the director of the new Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI) at UC Davis Health System, and a Target of Excellence professor at the School of Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.

As director of the IPHI, Kizer will launch an initiative to determine how the university can play an even larger role in improving the health of patients everywhere. The new institute is dedicated to identifying and implementing community and health care innovations using population-level perspectives to improve the health of society. Kizer will leverage UC Davis’ considerable campus resources, as well as local, national and global expertise to foster collaborations that advance the mission of optimizing population health.