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Center
for Urban Bioethics
The Center for Urban Bioethics within the Academy seeks to create
a new and important focus for clinical ethics--the care of inner
city populations. The Center endeavors to facilitate multidisciplinary
discussion and inquiry; identify and study the diverse factors which
influence individual and community values and assumptions relevant
to health, illness, and healthcare; explore the implications of
the pluralistic beliefs and values characteristic of urban life
for health policy development; and educate the professional and
academic communities as well as the public in areas related to cultural
diversity, respect for difference, and the importance of sensitivity
in the clinical transaction.
- The
Metropolitan New York Ethics Network
The Metropolitan New York Ethics Network at The New York Academy
of Medicine, founded in 1992 as a multidisciplinary organization
of professionals interested in bioethics, provides education and
opportunities for dialogue to address both the "traditional"
ethical dilemmas inherent in the clinical relationship, health
policy analyses, and research, as well as the more novel dilemmas
of late 20th - and early 21st -century. The Network supports and
enhances the work of institutional ethics committees in the metropolitan
New York area, whose work allows for education about, and analysis
of, ethical dilemmas in the clinical setting. Through this support,
the ultimate aim of the Network is to achieve more ethically informed
decision-making within individual institutions.
Center
for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES)
The Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) is a research
consortium established by The New York Academy of Medicine in partnership
with the The New York City Department of Health, and in cooperation
with multiple collaborating institutions. CUES was developed
to conduct collaborative, multi-disciplinary, population-based research,
with a special focus on low-income, disadvantaged populations, in
order to bring about a better understanding of diseases and other
threats to health concentrated in urban areas.
Council
on Biomedical Research and Development
The Council has been formed as a consortium of the leading health
science centers in New York City and in partnership with key elements
of the local biotech industry, to enhance the field of biomedical
research and aggressively assist emerging biotechnology firms in
the region.
Doctors
Against Handgun Injury
Doctors Against Handgun Injury is a coalition of twelve clinical
and other professional medical societies, organized and sponsored
by The New York Academy of Medicine, representing hundreds of thousands
of doctors practicing in the United States. We believe that handgun
injury is a public health problem as well as a political issue and
a criminal justice problem. We believe that if we bring a clinical
and public health perspective to bear on the issue, we can reduce
the level of handgun-associated death and injury in the United States.
You can visit our site at http://www.doctorsagainsthandguninjury.org
Office
of Development and Communications
The Office of Development and Communications is dedicated to fostering
public awareness of Academy health research and initiatives, and
securing funding to ensure that this dynamic research is able to
continue. The Communications staff works to maintain contact between
Academy researchers and outside agencies and the media. The Development
staff seeks program- and project-specific grants from foundations
and corporations as well as gifts at all levels from individuals,
and also organizes events that raise the profile of the Academy
and its mission.
Geriatric
Social Work Practicum Partnership Program
The Academy is the Coordinating Center for the John A. Hartford
Foundation's Geriatric Social Work Practicum Partnership Program.
This program is one component of the Strengthening Geriatric Social
Work Initiative, that the John A. Hartford Foundation Trustees voted
to support in March 1999. The goal of this program component
is to develop more aging-rich field practicum sites that will be
a permanent and ongoing component of the graduate social work educational
process in to address the critical need for geriatric social workers.
You can visit our site at http://socialwork.nyam.org
Division
of Health and Science Policy
Created in 1996, the Division of Health and Science Policy is the
focal point for the Academy's activities related to health services
research and health policy. The Division conducts empirical research,
sponsors conferences on important health policy issues, and collaborates
with other parts of the Academy and with outside organizations on
projects relevant to its mission. The Division works with the Academy's
Section on Health Care Delivery in planning the Section's programs.
Of special current concern to the Division are Medicaid managed
care, the future of nonprofit health care, the trustworthiness of
medical care in the managed care era, medical professionalism, and
the relationship of health services research to health policy. The
Division is also home to the New York Forum for Child Health.
- The
New York Forum for Child Health
Under
the direction of the Division of Health and Science Policy, The
New York Forum for Child Health was created in 1997. The New York
Forum for Child Health is a broad-based collaborative body dedicated
to enhancing the health of all children in New York State by improving
access to health insurance and quality health care services. Through
its diverse membership, the Forum seeks to provide a strong and
objective voice on child health by advising state government,
serving as a resource for information, and coordinating existing
data on child health for policymakers and the broader children's
health community. With close to 50 invited members from the public
and private sectors, including clinicians, researchers, advocates,
health plan administrators, community organizations, and government
officials, the Forum is operated by The New York Academy of Medicine
with support from the Foundation for Child Development.
Division
of Information Management
The Division
of Information Management gives new life to the heart of The New
York Academy of Medicine by engineering a convergence of history,
technology, service and research. Encompassed within the Division
are five areas of functionality:
- Historical Collections, the realm
of scholarship
- Academy Library, the intellectual service
center of the Academy
- Regional
Medical Library, a center for service and support to health
sciences libraries throughout New York and surrounding states
- Information
Systems, the technological infrastructure for electronic communications;
and
- The Office
of Informatics Research, which explores innovative solutions for
organization and communication of health sciences knowledge in
the digital age.
Division
of Public Health
Established
in 1995, the Division of Public Health strengthens and redirects the
Academy’s historic commitment to public health. Responding to
the needs of communities in today’s rapidly changing environment,
the Division seeks to improve health and the functioning of the health
system by enhancing the resources and skills of professionals and
organizations in public health and by integrating the public health
sector more closely with the medical sector and the broader community.
The Division’s Center for the
Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health conducts multidisciplinary
investigations and provides technical assistance to enhance the capacity
of communities to implement health-promoting partnerships. Through
its work in Public
Health Informatics, the Division identifies barriers to accessing
useful public health information and promotes the development of navigational
tools and electronic networks to meet the information and communication
needs of public health professionals and community groups.
Office of School Health
Programs
Promoting healthy schools. Workshop trainings for teachers, parents,
school administrators and health professionals. Programs can be
tailored to state or local needs.
Office
of Special Populations
HIV/AIDS is increasingly affecting vulnerable populations -
populations for whom it is just one of many issues and problems.
Effective solutions, now more than ever, require a multifaceted
approach and participation from many sectors. The Office of Special
Populations was established in the early nineties to provide a voice
and a venue for those working tirelessly to address clinical, scientific,
policy and societal issues related to HIV and AIDS, and to serve
as a catalyst for translating policy into action.
The paramount
goals of the Office of Special Populations are to identify and ameliorate
barriers to care for people with HIV/AIDS as well as to promote
programs and services aimed at prevention. The Office is pursuing
clusters of projects that address some of the more pressing issues:
adherence to complex treatment regimens, HIV and AIDS among active
substance users, access and continuity of care in communities of
color, and processes for effective allocation of HIV funds.
Urban
Health Initiative
The Urban Health Initiative serves as a centralized network for
community service programs and activities of medical students in
the New York City metropolitan area.
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