Professor of Global Public Health, New York University

Dr. Donna Shelley is a tenured Professor of Global Public Health at the NYU School of Global Public Health in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management. She is the founding Director of the School’s Global Center for Implementation Science and is Co-Director of the Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program at the NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center.

Her work is motivated by a deep commitment to reducing tobacco-related disparities in morbidity and mortality in the US and Viet Nam. In pursuit of this goal, she has built a rigorous program of translational, population-based, and policy-relevant research to optimize the implementation of tobacco use treatment in healthcare delivery systems, accelerate the implementation of tobacco control policies and develop innovative ways to improve access to and treatment of nicotine addiction among people with co-morbid conditions.

Her record of extramural funding includes awards from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the New York State Department of Health. Dr. Shelley received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and MPH in Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.