Cheryl Healton

Founding Dean of School of Global Public Health

Professor of Public Health Policy and Management

Professional overview

For the last ten years, Dean Healton has devoted herself to building GPH’s academic, service, and research programs. The School has been accredited by CEPH, increased the size of its student body and research funding, recruited top faculty, added doctoral-level programs, and made diversity, equity and inclusion a priority.

Previously, as the founding President and CEO of Legacy, a leading organization dedicated to tobacco control, Dean Healton guided the national youth tobacco prevention campaign, which has been credited with reducing youth smoking prevalence to record lows, and launched programs for smoking cessation, public education, technical assistance, and a broad range of grant making.

Prior to joining Legacy, Dean Healton held numerous roles at Columbia University including Associate Dean of its Medical School, Assistant Vice President for the Health Sciences and Chairman of Sociomedical Sciences, and Associate Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health. She is an Emeritus Professor of Columbia University.

Dean Healton has authored over 120 peer-reviewed articles and has been awarded multiple grants in AIDS, tobacco control and higher education. She was the founding chair of the Public Health Practice Council of the Association of Schools of Public Health. As an active member of the public health community she has given presentations around the world and is a frequent contributor to national and local coverage of public health issues.

She holds a DrPH from Columbia University's School of Public Health (with distinction) and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU.

Education

MPA, Health Policy and Planning, New York University, New York, NY

DrPH, Sociomedical Sciences (with distinction), Columbia University, New York, NY

Areas of research and study

Public Health Law

Public Health Policy

Tobacco Control

Publications

Publications

Community Services Program: Seven Years of Community Response to AIDS

Computer-Assisted Instruction in Aids Infection Control for Physicians

Controlling AIDS in Cuba

Controlling AIDS in Cuba

To the Editor Response to Gordon et al

Predicting the future of the AIDS epidemic and its consequences for the health care system of New York City

Male and Female Applicants for Alcoholism Treatment: A Study of Differential Staff Attitudes

The Role of Product Testing in Selecting a Computerized Billing System

Women at the Top - Problems Facing Women in Management

Chianti Bottle and Flowering Plants as Therapeutic Environmental Agents in State Hospital

Effects of environmental agents on social behavior of patients in a hospital dining room

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Task Force Report to the Governor: State of New York, Office of the Governor : Impact of Alcohol- Related Birth Defects in New York State: Recommendations for Further Research

Selecting a Computerized Billing System

Differences between nonprofessional recovering alcoholic counselors treating Bowery alcoholics: A study of therapist variables

Pills and Alcohol Don't Mix

The Destructive Three Martini Lunch

Planning Alcoholism Services - Survey of Eighty-eight New York State Out-Patient, Detoxification, Half-way House and Rehabilitation Facilities

Flowering Plants as a Therapeutic/ Environmental Agent in Psychiatric Hospital