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Cezar has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health since 2022. He has taught PUBH 610 - Introduction to Health Systems, Policy, and Management, HPAM 622 - Public Health and Health Care Law, and HPAM 625 - Public Health Policy Analysis. He won the Dean’s Merit Award for Adjunct Faculty Teaching in 2026.
Cezar currently serves as Senior Adviser at the New York City Health Department, where he develops policy and provides strategic advice on partnerships and initiatives that advance health equity, strengthen public health, and improve outcomes for marginalized communities. His work focuses on healthcare access and quality, fair chance hiring, employment as a social determinant of health, Medicaid reform, and criminal legal system reform. He co-developed and launched, with Adjunct Lecturer Elodie (Lili) Warren, a public health fellowship program for people with lived experience of the criminal legal system, called the Gamarra Fellowship for Emerging Public Health Leaders, which he considers a career highlight.
Prior to his work at the NYC Health Department, he was a presidential appointed Senior Adviser at the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights during the Obama Administration.
Cezar earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland College Park.
Cezar currently serves as Senior Adviser at the New York City Health Department, where he develops policy and provides strategic advice on partnerships and initiatives that advance health equity, strengthen public health, and improve outcomes for marginalized communities. His work focuses on healthcare access and quality, fair chance hiring, employment as a social determinant of health, Medicaid reform, and criminal legal system reform. He co-developed and launched, with Adjunct Lecturer Elodie (Lili) Warren, a public health fellowship program for people with lived experience of the criminal legal system, called the Gamarra Fellowship for Emerging Public Health Leaders, which he considers a career highlight.
Prior to his work at the NYC Health Department, he was a presidential appointed Senior Adviser at the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights during the Obama Administration.
Cezar earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland College Park.
Degrees
JD in Law from University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Baltimore, MD
BA in Government and Politics from University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, MD
Research Interests
Civil rights, health insurance, criminal legal system, access to healthcare.