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Gary Cox

Professor & Associate Dean for
Public Health Practice & Community
Partnerships

Gary Cox, J.D.

Contact Information

Phone: (405) 271-8001, x37073

Office: Hudson College of Public Health

801 Northeast 13th Street, Suite 369

Post Office Box 26901

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104

Email: Gary-Cox@ouhsc.edu

Biography

Dr. Cox is the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice and has a secondary appointment as a clinical professor in the OU College of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine. He is the former Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. Dr. Cox has over 50 years of public health experience in Oklahoma, serving previously as Director of Health in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. He works to achieve collective goals of public health education, health workforce development, and partnerships with governmental public health and community organizations. Not only has Dr. Cox served as the only public health professional to lead all three public health departments in Oklahoma, he has also had the honor of serving on the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Board for ten years—culminating in serving as President of NACCHO in 2008-2009. NACCHO represents almost 3,000 local public health departments.

Education

Education:

  • BA Northeastern State University
  • JD University of Tulsa

Appointments

Appointments:

  • ASPPH Public Health Practice Committee, Bipartisan Policy Center Public Health Advisory Group, Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response, NACCHO Past Presidents Council, ASTHO Alumni Society

Teaching:

  • HAP 5353 001 Public Health Law
  • HAP 5990 Research in Health Administration

Research

Research Interests:

  • Public Health Practice, Public Health Preparedness, Public Health Community Partnerships, Public Health Law

Publications

Link to Dr. Cox's current publications

Select publications:

  1. Cox, G. ((2004 Summer). Preparing Masters of Public Health Students for Real World Experience. NACCHO Exchange 18-19
  2. Cox, G., Combs, C.O. (2004 Winter). Investing in Syndromic Surveillance: “Tulsa Makes the Move”, NACCHO Exchange, 22-23.
  3. Spencer, L., Steeg, S.K., Cox, G., Matthews, G., and Ransom, M. (2004) “New Partners in Community Legal Preparedness: Public Health and the Health Care Bar”, The Journal of Law, Medicine a& Ethics, (Special Suppl. 32:4), 46.
  4. Cox, G. (2005 Supplement). Partnering for Preparedness: Project Public Health Ready Experience, Public Health Reports 69-75.
  5. Cox, G. (2017). Solving Population Health Problems, Through Collaboration, Chapter 10 The OKC Story-Creating a culture of Health, From the Inside Out.