Michael Rozier, S.J., Named Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives

Loyola University Chicago has appointed Rev. Michael Rozier, S.J., an expert on organizational ethics, policy, and practice, as the new Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives, effective July 7, 2025. 

Rozier is an associate professor and department chair of Health Management and Policy at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the use of moral rhetoric in health policy, geospatial location’s effect on health-related privacy, and the relationship between moral imagination and social structures. In addition to over 30 peer-review articles, Rozier has a forthcoming book with Johns Hopkins University Press entitled Growing Our Moral Imagination: How Jesus Would Respond to Health Care Today.  

In his new role at Loyola, Rozier will help advance key initiatives in the University’s strategic plan.   

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. Rozier serves on several advisory boards for Catholic Health Association and on the board of directors of SSM Health Care Corporation, a multi-state health care system in the Midwest. He also serves on the board of trustees of Marquette University and St. Johns’ College in Belize. 

Rozier received his BA in chemistry from Saint Louis University in 2003 and upon graduation entered the Jesuits. During his formation, he earned graduate degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto (Regis College), in international health from Johns Hopkins University, and in moral theology from Boston College. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2014 and in 2018 he earned his PhD in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan.