Chris Dickey

Clinical Associate Professor of Global and Environmental Health

Professional overview

Dr. Chris Dickey is an international development innovator and public health entrepreneur whose work seeks to develop sustainable public health models and to forge bonds between the academic community and practitioners in the field. He sees the challenges facing public health - vast health inequities, applied skills gaps among public health professionals, weak community health systems, and shrinking research budgets - and seeks to reimagine sustainable solutions through a multidisciplinary approach. This is reflected by the fact that he has worked in more than 20 countries with the United Nations (UN) and other agencies and co-founded a company that provides clean water and primary care in villages in India. 

Dr. Dickey is developing a public health entrepreneurship program to address the demand for a new generation of public health practitioners with the skill sets and opportunities to create innovative and sustainable business models as stand-alone entities or within a larger corporation.

Through a learning model that combines lectures, group exercises, real-time simulations, and implementable course projects and in partnership with the UN and World Food Programme, Dr. Dickey leads an Applied Food System and Nutrition course in which international public health professionals and public health students learn and work together on real world problems. Additionally, Dr. Dickey coordinates the Applied Global Health and Development Lab, where have the opportunity to work on universal health coverage policy, a new data-driven decision support tool, supply chain and logistics analysis,  social network and knowledge management analyses, and the development of a business model for online public health programs. 

Education

DrPH, Molecular Cancer Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY

MBA, Finance and Entrepreneurial Management, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

MA, Journalism, New York University, New York, NY

Areas of research and study

Global Health

Inter-organizational Networks

Public Health Entrepreneurship

Sustainability

Systems Interventions

Publications

Publications

A New Model of Learning: Environmental Health in a Global World

Centering community-based knowledge in food security response and climate resilience in southern Madagascar

Behavioral Communication Strategies for Global Epidemics: An Innovative Model for Public Health Education and Humanitarian Response

Addressing equitable access through innovation: case studies from Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda.

Integrating an approach to assess UHC access barriers into district health systems strengthening in Uganda, Ghana and Rwanda.

What would it really take to halt Ebola and prevent future epidemics?

Healton, C., & Dickey, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

2014

Journal title

The Huffington Post

Re: Hemminki,K., Dickey,C., Karlsson,S., Bell,D., Hsu,Y., Tsai,W.-Y., Mooney,L.A., Savela,K. and Perera,F.P. (1997) aromatic DNA adducts in foundry workers in relation to exposure, lifestyle and CYP1A1 and glutathione transferase M1 genotype

Aromatic DNA adducts in foundry workers in relation to exposure, life style and CYP1A1 and glutathione transferase M1 genotype

Molecular epidemiology and occupational health

Variability in PAH-DNA adduct measurements in peripheral mononuclear cells: Implications for quantitative cancer risk assessment

Molecular epidemiology in environmental carcinogenesis

CYP1A1 Messenger RNA Levels in Placental Tissue as a Biomarker of Environmental Exposure

Carcinogen-DNA adducts and gene mutation in foundry workers with low-level exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts in smokers and their relationship to micronutrient levels and the glutathione-s-transferase m1 genotype

Hprt and glycophorin a mutations in foundry workers: Relationship to pah exposure and to pah-DNA adducts

Molecular epidemiology of lung cancer and the modulation of markers of chronic carcinogen exposure by chemopreventive agents

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-DNA Adducts in White Blood Cells and Urinary 1-Hydroxypyrene in Foundry Workers

Cigarette smoking related polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-DNA adducts in peripheral mononuclear cells

Molecular and genetic damage in humans from environmental pollution in Poland