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Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH)

Editor-in-Chief

Mary Evelyn Northridge, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

New York University College of Dentistry

Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion
250 Park Ave S, Room 642
New York, NY 10003-1402 USA

Tel: 212-998-9728

men6@nyu.edu

Mary Evelyn Northridge, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion at the New York University College of Dentistry. She also holds a part-time appointment as a Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences (in Dental Medicine) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Professor Northridge was re-appointed as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health for her fifth term in 2011. She has enduring interests in social and environmental determinants of health, including oral health, and a current focus in the utility of systems science to integrate and sustain holistic health and health care. Professor Northridge is presently funded on the project, "Leveraging Opportunities to Improve Oral Health in Older Adults," a collaborative initiative involving the University at Buffalo, Columbia University, and New York University. Professor Northridge earned a BA in chemistry with a specialty in biochemistry at the University of Virginia, an MPH in environmental health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Rutgers University, and a PhD in epidemiology at Columbia University. Upon the completion of a post-doctoral fellowship in cancer epidemiology at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute in Piscataway, NJ, Professor Northridge continued her research and academic career at the Harlem Health Promotion Center of Columbia University, where her research and practice projects addressed the elimination of social disparities in health through community-based participatory research for more than two decades. Her current efforts involve dissemination and implementation research in primary care screening at dental chairside.