Cheryl Healton
Founding Dean of School of Global Public Health
Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
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Professional overview
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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.
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Education
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MPA, Health Policy and Planning, New York University, New York, NYDrPH, Sociomedical Sciences (with distinction), Columbia University, New York, NY
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Areas of research and study
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Public Health LawPublic Health PolicyTobacco Control
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Publications
Publications
Delivering HIV/AIDS services: The professional care provider speaks out
Mismanaged care: the warning signs.
A balancing act: The tension between case-finding and primary prevention strategies in New York State's voluntary HIV counseling and testing program in women's health care settings
Gender differences in HIV-related self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among college students
Stabilizing the HIV/AIDS workforce: Lessons from the New York City experience
The impact of patient education about the effect of zidovudine on HIV perinatal transmission: Knowledge gain, attitudes, and behavioral intent among women with and at risk of HIV
Recruiting Rare and Hard-to- reach Populations: A Sampling Strategy for Surveying NYC Residents Living with HIV/AIDS doi
The effect of video interventions on improving knowledge and treatment compliance in the sexually transmitted disease clinic setting: Lesson for hiv health education
Cuba's response to the HIV epidemic
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
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
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