Jeffrey Rozelle

Jeff’s background in epidemiology has been applied to global health projects. He has led monitoring, evaluation and research departments for humanitarian and development agencies in low- and middle-income countries.

After earning his Master of Public Health degree at Tulane University, he lived and worked in Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and most recently Liberia where he served as the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning for Last Mile Health. There, his department designed and implemented research with a special focus on access to health services in communities further than an hour’s walk from the nearest health facility. This work was used to improve the Ministry of Health’s National Community Health Assistant Program.

Jeff is interested in the application of geospatial methods in understanding and targeting inequities in disease burden and access to quality healthcare in remote and other special populations. Specifically, he studies how the health service environment influences health behaviors and outcomes in low- and middle- income countries, and has been developing and studying new methods for joining geomasked surveys with other spatial datasets using Bayesian methods and simulation studies.

B.A., Psychology, Taylor University
Master of Public Health, Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Rozelle, J.W., Meyer, M. J., McKenna, A.H., Obaje, H., Kraemer, J.D., “The effect of interviewer-respondent age difference on the reporting of sexual activity in the Demographic and Health Surveys: Analysis of data from 21 countries,” Journal of Global Health, January 20, 2023.

Rozelle, J. W., Meyer, M. J., McKenna, A. H., Obaje, H., Kraemer, J. D. (2023). The effect of interviewer-respondent age difference on the reporting of sexual activity in the Demographic and Health Surveys: Analysis of data from 21
countries. Journal of Global Health, 13, 04002.

Rozelle, J. W., Korvah, J., Wiah, O., Kraemer, J., Hirschhorn, L. R., Price, M. R., … & Panjabi, R. (2021). Improvements in malaria testing and treatment after a national community health worker program in rural Liberia. Journal of Global Health Reports, 5, e2021073.

Arriola, V., Tischendorf, J., Musuuza, J., Barker, A., Rozelle, J. W., & Safdar, N. (2016). Assessing the risk of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection with proton pump inhibitor use: A meta-analysis. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 37(12), 1408-1417.

Arriola, V., & Rozelle, J. W. (2016). Traumatic Brain Injury in United States Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) Hispanic Veterans. Behavioral Sciences, 6(3).

Deal, J. L., Massa, H., Check, K., Naaktgeboren, C., Malone, A. M., & Rozelle, J. W. (2015). A multidimensional measurement of the health impact of community-based water treatment systems in Uganda. Journal of Water, Sanitation

and Hygiene for Development, 5(1), 1-8.

Rozelle, J. W. (2022). Probabilistically linking displaced household surveys to health facilities and other geographic features. GeoMed 2022

Jockers, D., Ngafuan, R., Baernighausen, T., Kessley, A., White, E.E., Kenny, A., Kraemer, J., Holmes, L., Geedeh, J., Rozelle, J.W., Obaje, H., Wheh, S., Pederson, J., Siedner, M.J., Mendin, S., Subah, M., Hirschhorn, L.R. (2022). Implementation of the Liberia National Community Health Assistant (NCHA) Program and Under-five Mortality: A study protocol [Preprint]. medRxiv: Health Systems and Quality Improvement. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.15.22277669