New Program Co-Chair: Cheryl Archbald, MD, MPH

Hello and Happy New Year to CHPPD Section Members!  I am pleased to be serving as the new program co-chair for the 2011 Annual Meeting alongside Dr. Padma Arvind. 

By way of introduction, I am a board certified pediatrician with a master's in public health and additional residency training in preventive medicine from the New York City Department of Health.  For close to a year, I have been the acting commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Health in New York.  Our health department has a staff of 300 and is located in New Rochelle just north of the Bronx and within a 30 minute train ride to Grand Central Station in Manhattan.   

For the prior five-and-a-half years, I served as the deputy commissioner for the Division of Community Health through which I was the director of the division at our health department in charge of health promotion, disease prevention and maternal child health programs and policy development. 

I am an adjunct faculty member at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York Medical College School of Medicine and New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practice (School of Public Health).  I serve on the community boards of the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association and the Bronx-Westchester Area Health Education Center, a regional agency that addresses health disparities by promoting careers in the health professions to underrepresented students. 

Through my career, I have enjoyed developing various interdisciplinary and diverse partnerships with community agencies, faith-based organizations and medical partners who share the similar goals of reducing preventable causes of chronic diseases and addressing health disparities through informational and academic forums, community-based outreach, increased access to preventive screening and inter/intra-agency policy development. 

I look forward to meeting fellow CHPPD Section members over the next several months by e-mail & conference calls and in-person at this year’s conference, Oct. 29-Nov. 2 in Washington, D.C.  Remember to contact myself or Padma if you are interested in being an Abstract Reviewer.  Thank you, and see you in D.C.!