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

Tobacco and NIH : More than addiction

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US attitudes about banning menthol in cigarettes : Results from a nationally representative survey

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Camel No. 9 cigarette-marketing campaign targeted young teenage girls

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Home and workplace smoking bans in Italy, Ireland, Sweden, France and the Czech Republic

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Menthol Cigarettes are Harmful

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Misinformation about tobacco

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Prohibiting menthol in tobacco products : A policy whose time has come

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The truth® Campaign: Using Countermarketing to Reduce Youth Smoking

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Why we should make menthol cigarettes history

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Cost-Utility Analysis of the National truth® Campaign to Prevent Youth Smoking

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Increasing youths' exposure to a tobacco prevention media campaign in rural and low-population-density communities

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Issues, priorities, and political implications for cancer : An organization's perspective

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The Strategic Dialogue on Tobacco Harm Reduction: a vision and blueprint for action in the US

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Unintended Consequences of Tobacco Policies. Implications for Public Health Practice

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A Clinical Practice Guideline for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update

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Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 update U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline executive summary

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A closer look at smoking among young adults : Where tobacco control should focus its attention

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Building a united front : Aligning the agendas for tobacco control, lung cancer research, and policy

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Do tobacco countermarketing campaigns increase adolescent under-reporting of smoking?

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Hollywood quits - Behind the scenes of a Hollywood-based smoking cessation program

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Reducing carcinogen levels in cigarette smoke [4]

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Women's knowledge of the leading causes of cancer death

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Findings and implications from a national study on potential reduced exposure products (PREPs)

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Perspectives from the front lines of tobacco control

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Public Health Reports : Foreword

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