Jaime Gofin, MD, MPH

professor

University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Public Health

Professional Summary

• 2008-2009  Professor, Director of Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) MPH Program, Department of Prevention and Community Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington DC 
• 2003-2008  Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington DC
• 1981-2003  Director, Teaching Programs of Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC), School Public Health and Community Medicine,Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1995-2001  Academic Director of the MPH Program of the Hadassah and Hebrew University School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem 

Education

• MPH – Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1974
• MD – Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1972

Research Interests

Evaluation of Community Health and Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Programs. Development of COPC Programs,  Quality of Teaching Programs, Teachers Training Programs 

Selected Publications

• Gofin J and Gofin R, Essentials of Community Health. Jones and Bartlett Learning. Sudbury, Massachusetts, 2010.
• Gofin J, Foz G. Training and Application of Community-oriented Primary Care (COPC) through Family Medicine in Catalonia, Spain. Fam Med, 2008;40(3):196-202.
• Gofin J, Gofin R. Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC): A Public Health Model in Primary Care Revista Panamericana de la Salud/Pan American Journal of Public Health (PAHO/WHO), 2007;21(2-3):177-184 (in Spanish)
• Gofin J, Gofin R. Community Oriented Primary Care and Primary Health Care. Am J Public Health 2005, May;95 (5):757.
• Epstein L, Gofin J, Gofin R, Neumark Y. The COPC Jerusalem Experience: Three Decades of Service, Research and Training in Community-Oriented Primary Care. Am J Public Health 2002;92:1717-1721

Professional Affiliations

• American Public Health Association
• Network Towards Unity For Heath