Cheryl Healton

Cheryl Healton

Cheryl Healton

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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

Community Services Program: Seven Years of Community Response to AIDS

Healton, C., Messeri, P., Moon-Howard, J., & Nsiah-Jefferson, L. (n.d.).

Publication year

1990
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Computer-Assisted Instruction in Aids Infection Control for Physicians

Healton, C., Garrett, T. J., Gary, S., Dobkin, J. F., & Cheryl, H. (n.d.).

Publication year

1990

Journal title

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volume

2

Issue

4

Page(s)

215-218
10.1080/10401339009539463
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A program to provide health care workers instruction in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) infection control was developed to run on IBM microcomputers. This program can be used by individuals with no computer experience. It was assessed by medical resident physicians who were randomized into a control and an experimental group. A 48-item true-false test on AIDS knowledge was administered to both groups. The experimental group completed a questionnaire on their views of CAI. The mean knowledge score for the control group (n = 33) was 35.9 (SD = 3.9), whereas the mean knowledge score for the experimental group (n = 24) was 42.4 (SD = 4.6), a statistically significant difference (p

Controlling AIDS in Cuba

Gordon, A. M., Paya, R., Healton, C., & Bayer, R. (n.d.).

Publication year

1989

Journal title

New England Journal of Medicine

Volume

321

Issue

12

Page(s)

829-830
10.1056/NEJM198909213211212
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To the Editor: The Special Report by Bayer and Healton (April 13 issue)1 on the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Cuba raises questions that should be considered in the light of the available information. Indeed, Cuba's approach to AIDS control is unique. It does not emphasize education, it has screened about 4 million persons and plans to screen the entire population of the island, and it has reported a seropositive rate that is comparable to that of Oklahoma. How a Caribbean island with a 500 percent increase in gonorrhea in the past 10 years,2 a contingent of 380,000 in Africa….

Controlling AIDS in Cuba

Bayer, R., & Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1989

Journal title

New England Journal of Medicine

Volume

320

Issue

15

Page(s)

1022-1024
10.1056/NEJM198904133201529
Abstract
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Unlike any other nation, Cuba has embarked on a program to control the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) that is designed to limit the spread of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by invoking the compulsory elements of the public health tradition. Widespread screening for HIV infection began in Cuba three years ago, and persons identified as infected have been sent to a sanatorium located in a Havana suburb. This unique reliance on a modified quarantine extends to all HIV-infected persons. A recent visit to Cuba as guests of the Ministry of Health permitted us to talk with Cuban officials…

To the Editor Response to Gordon et al

Healton, C., & Bayer, R. (n.d.). In New England Journal of Medicine.

Publication year

1989
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Predicting the future of the AIDS epidemic and its consequences for the health care system of New York City

Healton, C., Alderman, M. H., Drucker, E. E., Rosenfield, A., & Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1988

Journal title

Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine: Journal of Urban Health

Volume

64

Issue

2

Page(s)

175-183
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The point of this exercise is not to predict precisely the exact number of AIDS cases that will occur in any particular year. Rather, it is our aim to utilize existing data to develop a plausible scenario of the demand that this epidemic may place on the health care system of New York City in the very near future. To ignore the possibilities inherent in the empirical evidence currently available is to court a societal calamity even greater than the one already perceived. Even now, in the early phase of this epidemic, when HIV infected people occupy only 4.5% of the City's total of hospital beds, a set of emerging distortions and difficulties already threaten the integrity of the City's hospital system. A similar pattern is occurring in other cities with equivalent case rates, e.g. Newark and San Francisco. Innovation, particularly in a system so large and well established as New York's metropolitan health care establishment, which can protect the existing system while still meeting the challenge of AIDS, will be difficult and time consuming at best. But time is short, the need is great and is likely to grow rapidly.

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

Shaw, J. S., & Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1984

Journal title

Journal of Drug Issues

Volume

14

Issue

4

Page(s)

677-686
10.1177/002204268401400407 ; http://jod.sagepub.com/lookup/doi/10.1177/002204268401400407
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The Role of Product Testing in Selecting a Computerized Billing System

Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1981

Volume

II

Page(s)

557 - 1015
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Women at the Top - Problems Facing Women in Management

Healton, C., & Luther, L. (n.d.).

Publication year

1981

Journal title

MGMA connexion / Medical group Management Association
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Chianti Bottle and Flowering Plants as Therapeutic Environmental Agents in State Hospital

Healton, C., Talbott, J., Stern, D., & Shaw, J. (n.d.).

Publication year

1980

Journal title

Hospital and Community Psychiatry
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Effects of environmental agents on social behavior of patients in a hospital dining room

Talbott, J. A., Stern, D., & Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1980

Journal title

Hospital and Community Psychiatry

Volume

31

Issue

2

Page(s)

128-30
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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

Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1979
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Selecting a Computerized Billing System

Healton, C., & Deutch, A. (n.d.).

Publication year

1979

Journal title

MGMA connexion / Medical group Management Association

Volume

26

Issue

4
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Differences between nonprofessional recovering alcoholic counselors treating Bowery alcoholics: A study of therapist variables

Talbott, J. A., & Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1978

Journal title

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volume

50

Issue

4

Page(s)

333-342
10.1007/BF01064460 ; http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF01064460
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Pills and Alcohol Don't Mix

Healton, C. (n.d.). In New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Publication year

1978
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The Destructive Three Martini Lunch

Healton, C. (n.d.). In New York Times.

Publication year

1978
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Planning Alcoholism Services - Survey of Eighty-eight New York State Out-Patient, Detoxification, Half-way House and Rehabilitation Facilities

Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1977

Journal title

New York State Division of Alcoholism
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Flowering Plants as a Therapeutic/ Environmental Agent in Psychiatric Hospital

Talbott, J., Stern, D., Ross, J., & Healton, C. (n.d.).

Publication year

1976

Journal title

Horticultural Science

Volume

50

Issue

4
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Contact

cheryl.healton@nyu.edu 708 Broadway New York, NY, 10003
NYU School of Global Public Health
708 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

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