Dee Burton, Ph.D.,
Personality and Social Psychology, The New School for Social Research;
Principal Investigator, Smoking
Cessation Among Male Chinese-American Restaurant Workers in Flushing,
NY; Director, Human
Rights, Public Policy and Health Core; is Adjunct
Associate Professor of Urban
Public Health, Hunter College, City University
of New York (CUNY). Prior to coming to Hunter, Dr. Burton was Associate
Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public
Health. She teaches graduate courses in urban health promotion, community
health interventions, community health assessments, and human rights
and public health. Her current research focuses primarily on human
rights and public health policy, as well as on health communication;
she also has conducted extensive research on tobacco control, and
has been the principal investigator on research grants from the National
Cancer Institute (NCI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), and the United Way Foundation. Dr. Burton is author or co-author
of over forty peer-reviewed articles; nineteen monographs, book chapters
and proprietary research reports; and five books. She has been an
invited speaker at numerous local, national and international public
health conferences, is Chairperson of the West Africa Coordinating
Group and Nigeria Country Specialist for Amnesty
International USA, and in 1999 was inducted into
Delta Omega, the national honorary society for public health.
