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CUNY SPH is thrilled to announce that five CUNY SPH faculty members have advanced a step in their careers this semester, effective September 1, 2026.
Dr. Nevin Cohen has been named full professor. Dr. Cohen is chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, and director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. He joined CUNY SPH in 2014 as associate professor, after serving over 12 years as assistant professor at The New School. His research explores the policies, governance systems, practices, and infrastructure to support socially just, healthy, and resilient urban and regional food systems. Current projects include community-based research on the health impacts of platform-based food delivery work, a worker-centered study of the school food workforce, a study of the effects of farm-to-school programs on social-emotional learning in young adults, and the development of a municipal food metrics database and dashboard for New York City.
Dr. Elizabeth Kelvin has been named full professor. In addition to her faculty role, Dr. Kelvin is also interim associate dean for research. She is a researcher at the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) and the Center for Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health (CIRGH), and a member of the Data Core of the NYC Pandemic Response Institute (PRI). She is an epidemiologist by training, whose research focuses on infectious diseases, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Kelvin currently runs a lab on Neglected and Emerging Infectious Diseases (NEID) made-up of students and faculty working on related research projects.
Dr. Bruce Y. Lee has been awarded tenure. Dr. Lee is founder and executive director of the Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH) and the Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center, which serves as the AI center for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) consortium. He joined CUNY SPH in 2019 as professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. With over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications, he is an internationally recognized leader in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI), modeling, and other computer-aided methods, approaches, and tools to assist decision-making in health and public health. He is also a prolific journalist, covering health and science for Forbes for over a decade, with his articles being read over 92 million times since 2019.
Dr. Katarzyna (Kasia) Wyka has been named full professor. Dr. Wyka is deputy chair for the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She joined CUNY SPH in 2013 as assistant professor, and was named associate professor in 2020. Her expertise is the study design and statistical methods for public health research, with a focus on mental health statistics. Her collaborative work includes projects in mental and physical health consequences of trauma exposure, psychiatric disorders, chronic diseases, and physical activity.
