James Bohland serves as vice president and executive director of Virginia Tech's National Capital Region (NCR) Operations. In this position, he works with the NCR senior management team to develop and implement new strategic directions and to help coordinate services and program initiatives for the university's six sites in the region. He reports directly to the president, provost, and executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Virginia Tech. A full professor in Urban Affairs and Planning, he is also director of the Institute for Community Health, a position he has held since 2000.

Bohland served as chair of the Urban Affairs and Planning program from 1984 to 1995. He was the founding director of the School of Public and International Affairs and served in that capacity until the spring of 2001. From August 2000 to August 2001 he served as interim provost for Virginia Tech and in September 2001, he was appointed Senior Fellow for Biomedical, Bioengineering, and Health Projects by the university, a position he held until 2005.

He earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Georgia. and accepted a position at the University of Oklahoma, where he stayed until joining the faculty at Virginia Tech in 1980. During the last two years of his tenure in Oklahoma, Bohland served as chairman of the Geography Department.

With primary research interests in health policy and planning, community and population health, and in the social aspects of information technology, particularly as it relates to health, Bohland has authored more than 75 referred articles, book chapters and technical reports on topics ranging from community health, digital divide, and Community Technology Centers. He also edited the SUNY Albany series on urban and housing policy. He has received grants from NSF, Exxon, National Telecommunications and Information Agency, NIH and NASA.

Bohland was founder and president of Health Services Research, Inc., a company specializing in planning and data analysis services to organizations in the health and social service fields. He is past president of the Board for Montgomery Regional Hospital, of the Health Systems Board for Southwest Virginia, and of the Regional Planning Commission for the New River Valley. He has served on NSF panels, and is currently is a councilor for the Community Health, Planning and Policy Development Section of the American Public Health Association.

Contact Information

E-mail: jim.bohland@vt.edu

Office: (703) 518-2700