Cheryl Healton
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
Adverse Reactions to Public Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Lessons Learned
Failed retrieving data.AI integrations with lung cancer screening : Considerations in developing AI in a public health setting
Failed retrieving data.Multiple chapters in addition to serving as corresponding lead Editor1-Global Women's Health Overview Zephyrin, Beddoe, VandeVanter and Healton2-Women and Substance Use- Healton and Naegle3-Hope for the Future: Driving Systems and Policy Change to Advan
Failed retrieving data.Paradigm shift in early detection : Lung cancer screening to comprehensive CT screening
Failed retrieving data.Backlash: The War on Public Health, Editors Amy Fairchild, Cheryl Healton, Marian Jones, Ron Bayer, Georges Benjamin (accepted in contract in 2023, anticpated publication 2024Healton Chapters lead and contributor:1-Introduction: The War on Public Health,
Failed retrieving data.North American Drug Dialogue Public Health Sumit, June 6, 2023 White House Offcie on Drug Conrol Policy"Preventing Substance Use through Public Education" C. Healton
Failed retrieving data.Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment in the Dominican Republic : Perspectives of Focus Group Participants in the Santo Domingo Area
Failed retrieving data.Parent-Level Barriers and Facilitators to HPV Vaccine Implementation in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Failed retrieving data.Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Academic Public Health : 20-Year Update
Failed retrieving data.Evidence, alarm, and the debate over e-cigarettes
Failed retrieving data.The Opioid Crisis, Corporate Responsibility, and Lessons from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
Failed retrieving data.The tobacco master settlement agreement - Strategic lessons for addressing public health problems
Failed retrieving data.Pedagogical Scholarship in Public Health : A Call for Cultivating Learning Communities to Support Evidence-Based Education
Failed retrieving data.The US Cancer Moonshot initiative
Failed retrieving data.Tobacco control : How are we doing?
Failed retrieving data.Robbing Peter to Pay Paul with our Lives, Huffington
Failed retrieving data.To be ready for Ebola, hospitals need proper equipment, training and a plan
Failed retrieving data.Tobacco control since the 1964 Surgeon General's Report : Reflecting back and looking forward
Failed retrieving data.What would it really take to halt Ebola and prevent future epidemics?
Failed retrieving data.Public attitudes regarding banning of cigarettes and regulation of nicotine
Failed retrieving data.Who will deliver on the promise?
Failed retrieving data.Butt really? The environmental impact of cigarettes
Failed retrieving data.Depictions of tobacco use in 2007 broadcast television programming popular among US youth
Failed retrieving data.The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium : a foundation-university partnership to reduce tobacco use.
Failed retrieving data.Tobacco : An equal-opportunity killer?
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