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

Giving infants a Great Start: Launching a national smoking cessation program for pregnant women

Preventing 3 Million Premature Deaths and Helping 5 Million Smokers Quit: A National Action Plan for Tobacco Cessation

Reversal of Misfortune: Viewing Tobacco as a Social Justice Issue

Will the master settlement agreement achieve a lasting legacy?

Courage and dignity.

Forward: Selections from the American Journal of Public Health

Obesity and Tobacco

Smoking in the Movies

Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students – United States, 2002

Getting to the truth: Evaluating national tobacco countermarketing campaigns

Speaking truth(sm) to youth. How the American Legacy Foundation is helping teens reject tobacco.

Controlling tobacco use [3] (multiple letters)

Who's afraid of the truth?

Women and Smoking

The adolescent years: An academic-community partnership in Harlem comes of age.

Tobacco use among middle and high school students--United States, 1999.

Women and tobacco: with the master settlement agreement, we've come a long way, baby!

Youth tobacco surveillance United States, 1998-1999

Afterword for The Public Health Perspective: Have Hard-core Smokers Been Written Off?

Creating training opportunities for public health practitioners

Effects of ZDV-based patient education on intentions toward ZDV use, HIV testing and reproduction among a US cohort of women

Safer sex strategies for women: The hierarchical model in methadone treatment clinics

The shape of our river

A decision analysis of mandatory compared with voluntary HIV testing in pregnant women

Directly observed therapy and treatment completion for tuberculosis in the United States: Is universal supervised therapy necessary?