The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health (HDPFH) addresses a wide range of challenges to health, focusing on child, adolescent, reproductive, and sexual health, both in settled communities, and in communities that have been displaced as a result of political or environmental emergencies. We strive to improve health conditions in locations throughout our Upper Manhattan neighborhood, the nation, and around the world.

To students, our faculty and staff impart lessons learned from their extensive expertise in research, direct health care services, health education programs, and analyses of the impact of social policy on health. As a department, we consider the areas of education, research, and service delivery to be highly interdependent. Moreover, we make every effort to integrate a human rights perspective with all of our activities, so that our practice of public health promotes the greater social goals of human well-being, equality and freedom.