Andrew K. Goodman, MD, MPH, an esteemed member of APHA’s Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section, is the recently appointed deputy commissioner for the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The HPDP Division addresses many of New York City’s leading health problems, including smoking, obesity and teen pregnancy, and has responsibility for key initiatives to protect the health of women, infants, and children and minority populations.
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Goodman joined the New York City Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident in 1983 and has since held a number of positions including director of the Environmental Epidemiology Unit, assistant commissioner for Community Health Promotion, and associate commissioner/director of Community Health Works, a program designed to promote and support the development of comprehensive community-based prevention programs. More recently, he was associate commissioner and director of the East and Central Harlem District Public Health Office (DPHO), an office established to improve the health of residents of East and Central Harlem. Goodman has served on numerous local, state and national expert advisory committees, including those addressing childhood lead poisoning and childhood asthma.
Former NYC DOH Deputy Commissioner Stephen Schultz, a friend and colleague, remembers Dr Goodman as a true visionary and public health advocate, describing him as a "dogged advocate….always embracing the community in public health initiatives." Under Goodman’s leadership, the East and Central Harlem DPHO focused on mobilizing community residents and organizations to better address public health priorities through collaborations with other government and community based partners to coordinate program activities. The community is encouraged to utilize the DPHO as a local resource center for public health information, technical assistance and training.
One of the many initiatives community-level programs to help improve the lives of residents living in Community Districts 10 and 11 the DPHO launched during Goodman’s tenure is the Asthma Initiative consisting of comprehensive community-based programs, education, surveillance and evaluation.
Goodman attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed a pediatric residency at the Residency Program for Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. He received a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University School of Public Health, and was elected as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine on Jan. 26, 1994.
He is married to Roslyn Murov, a pediatrician and child psychiatrist at Abbott House and has three children; daughter Sarah is a recent graduate of Columbia Law School, son Jordan a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania and daughter, Sadie of Brooklyn.
The CHPPD Section congratulates Dr. Goodman on his promotion!
By Barbara Gilbert, Donna Patris, and Danielle Greene