Rev. Michael Rozier, S.J.

Rev. Michael Rozier, S.J., was elected to the 黑料不打烊 Board of Trustees in 2018.

He is the vice provost for strategic initiatives at Loyola University Chicago. In this role, Father Rozier helps advance key initiatives in the university鈥檚 strategic plan. He is also an associate professor of healthcare administration in Loyola鈥檚 Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health.

He previously served as department chair of health management and policy at Saint Louis University with a secondary appointment in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics. There he was also the founding director of the College for Public Health and Social Justice鈥檚 undergraduate degree in public health and taught several courses including global health, health care operations, and ethical leadership.

Father Rozier entered the Jesuits in 2003 and was ordained a priest in 2014. He has served as an ethics fellow with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, as a Fellow for the Study of Professional Ethics and a GeoEthics Fellow with the American Geographical Society. 

Father Rozier鈥檚 research focuses on how health care organizations respond to new reimbursement programs and the role that moral argumentation plays in health policy discourse. His peer-reviewed work has been published in JAMA Surgery, Milbank Quarterly, American Journal of Public Health, and American Journal of Bioethics, among others. He is also a regular contributor on matters of public health and health policy to America and Health Progress, a publication of Catholic Health Association. His first book, Growing Our Moral Imagination: How Jesus Might Respond to Health Care Today, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in early 2026.

Father Rozier serves on the board of directors and the sponsor board for SSM Health, a Catholic health system with ministries in Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma. He also serves on the board of trustees of St. John鈥檚 College in Belize and on the advisory board for the Center for Theology and Ethics in Catholic Health. He is a regular speaker on matters of ethics, population health, and Catholic identity for hospital boards and clinical leadership.

Father Rozier earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Saint Louis University, a master of health science from Johns Hopkins University, a master of divinity and a licentiate in sacred theology from Boston College, and a doctorate in health management and policy from the University of Michigan.