Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to bring to you the 2023 edition of City Health, CUNY SPH’s annual magazine highlighting the public health service and scholarship in which our dynamic faculty, students and alumni are engaged.
From eliminating hepatitis C in New York City, to applying an entrepreneurial mindset to public health solutions, to exploring the public health effect of legalized cannabis through the lens of historical injustice, racism and discrimination, impactful research is espoused in our mission. Our faculty and student research extends beyond the scholarly pursuit to provide frameworks for public policies that will result in better health outcomes in our city and beyond.
Public service is essential to public health and as such it is integrated into our curriculum. Taking their studies from the classroom to the field, our students work with organizations throughout our city to develop and implement projects that not only provide real-world public health experience, but can also have an immediate impact on our communities. In the last year, our students have created campaigns to bring health literacy and health insurance coverage to young New Yorkers, made nutritional education and resources more accessible to bilingual and underserved populations and contributed to the city’s public health surveillance work by analyzing trends in overdose deaths throughout the city.
We continue to be one of the nation’s best and most innovative schools of public health. This year we stand at number 15 out of 202 ranked schools and programs of public health nationwide, marking our rise to the top 10 percent of all schools in less than 10 years! This is a direct reflection of the critical role that our faculty, students and alumni play in partnering with government, policymakers, communities, health care providers and others to help address the pressing public health issues of our time.
We are immensely proud of our accomplishments in the past year and hope you will enjoy reading about them in this latest edition of City Health.
With my very best wishes,
Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH
DEAN
