Faculty

Hila Richardson

"Public health asks the important questions, 'How do we keep people from getting sick? How do we promote health?'" explains Dr. Hila Richardson, to describe her interest in public health.

Dr. Richardson is Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program, New York University College of Nursing. She is responsible for the development and oversight of the undergraduate program, continuing education offerings, and partnerships with community agencies for academic nursing practices.

Previously, Dr. Richardson was the Deputy Director of Medical Research and Practice Policy at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, where she directed a cost study of the impact of substance abuse on New York City; she was Senior Assistant Vice-President for Long Term Care at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, where she oversaw the long term care programs in the nation's largest public hospital system; she was Associate Director of the Rural Hospital Program, a national demonstration sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and based at New York University; and she was a Program Analyst at the Institute of Medicine on a study examining public financing of graduate medical education. "I'm interested in the ability of people to have access to health services in both urban and rural areas," says Dr. Richardson.

Her public health work has included public health nursing positions in rural and urban health departments and school health nursing in an inner-city public school. She was elected to the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association and served as President of the Public Health Association of New York City. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia and at the Department of Nursing at the New York City Technical College. Dr. Richardson received a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Virginia, an M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Dr.P.H. from The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. In November 2000, Dr. Richardson became a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.