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CUNY SPH Harlem Health Initiative (HHI) Community Outreach Program Director Deborah Levine, LCSW, was honored last week at Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine’s Black History Month Celebration, recognizing the accomplishments of local leaders.
Levine was lauded for her work with HHI to address neighborhood service priorities and to improve health and reduce health disparities throughout Harlem.
“I am thankful to be given this prestigious honor amongst these giants but more thankful to be creating Black history,” says Levine. “As the burden of health disparities has been disproportionately borne by our Black communities, any efforts to reduce these disparities and advance health equity is intrinsically part of Black history.”
Throughout her career, Levine has worked to apply capacity building and technical assistance to community-based organizations, national non-profits, and houses of worship by implementing strategies that increase access to and utilization of health promotion, disease prevention, and risk-and reduction avoidance services for racial/ethnic minority individuals.
Levine is a founding board member and national secretary of the National Black Women’s HIV/AIDS Network, Inc. She also serves on the board of the Coalition on Positive Health Empowerment (COPE), an organization dedicated to the eradication of viral hepatitis. She is the community co-chair for New York Knows and chair of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Women’s Advisory Board.
