Avani Ansari, MPH, CHES

Headshot of Avani Ansari. She is wearing a floral blouse and is standing against a grey background.
Avani B. Ansari, MPH, CHES
Senior Program Manager
212-992-5584
avani.bhatnagar@nyu.edu
 

Avani Ansari is the Senior Program Manager for New York City Treats Tobacco. Avani works to support medical and behavioral health organizations in implementing evidence-based tobacco use treatment policies and procedures. 

In her role, she manages and oversees the team, ensuring grant deliverables are met effectively. She strengthens relationships with executive-level leadership across varied stakeholder groups, including the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the NYS Office of Mental Health, the NYC Housing Authority, healthcare organizations, and hospital systems. She leverages these relationships to develop tobacco use treatment policy templates that suit the unique needs of each type of healthcare agency. She developed template policies to support behavioral healthcare agencies across NYS and developed NYCTT’s first school-based healthcare agency policy template to address tobacco use (including vape use) among the school-age population in NYC.

Previously, she worked with the Public Health Detailing Program and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, developing campaigns for varied public health concerns such as latent tuberculosis infection, maternal morbidity and mortality, youth tobacco use, and COVID-19 during the agency’s emergency response period.

Avani holds an MPH in Sociomedical Sciences with a certificate in Health Promotion Research and Practice from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and a BA in Human Health from Emory University. She is currently a DrPH candidate at NYU's School of Global Public Health.