Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Executive Director, CUNY ISPH

Dr. Denis Nash is a Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Executive Director of the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH). He has over twenty years of experience in infectious disease epidemiology, and his research consistently generates new knowledge with clear programmatic and policy implications. His experience includes extensive domestic and international work in implementation science, comparative effectiveness research, and large-scale epidemiologic studies. He has published over 200 scientific articles and his research is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Prior to joining CUNY, Dr. Nash was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and subsequently the Director of HIV/AIDS Surveillance at the New York City Department of Health, where he pioneered named reporting for HIV. He also worked at the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program (ICAP) at Columbia University as the founding Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research – spearheading a multi-country initiative and research agenda that leveraged routine medical records data on hundreds of thousands of people receiving HIV care in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Nash has extensive global health implementation and research experience. He has worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa, including on the Guinea Worm Eradication Program in Nigeria, sentinel HIV surveillance in Nigeria and Botswana, and rapid expansion/scale-up of HIV/AIDS care under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

He also works on non-communicable diseases, which includes a community-based cohort study of cardiovascular disease and risk factors among adults in Port au Prince, Haiti in collaboration with GHESKIO and Weill-Cornell. Dr. Nash and team have launched a large-scale COVID-related research portfolio, which includes a national community-based cohort study of adults and a city-wide collaboration with the urgent care provider, CityMD.

Provided courtesy of Dr. Denis Nash.