Assistant Commissioner Health Promotion of Justice- Impacted Populations

Established in 1805 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential regardless of who they are how old they are where they are from or where they live.

As a worldrenowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge and responding to urgent public health crises from New York Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation expertise and programs and services. We serve as the population health strategist and policy and planning authority for the City of New York while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy including programs and services focused on food and nutrition antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.

Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recentlycompleted strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are:
1) To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated disease including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths strengthening our youth mental health systems and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for womens health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7000plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racisms impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021 the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance antiracist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power opportunity and access the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

BUREAU AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The NYC department of Health and Mental Hygiene seeks an Assistant Commissioner to lead the Division of Mental Hygienes Bureau of Health Promotion of Justice Impacted Population. The Assistant Commissioner will be responsible for strategic oversight of a progressive Public Health/Public Safety agenda including system transformation programmatic initiatives best practices policy and advocacy around regulatory and legislative matters.

The Bureau of Health Promotion for JusticeImpacted Populations (HPJIP) aims to reduce the negative social and health consequences of justice system involvement through innovative policy and practice change. By centering community addressing racial inequities honoring lived experience and elevating traumaandresilienceinformedapproaches we promote evidencebased best practices to address the needs of those disproportionately impacted by the criminal legal system.


Direct oversight of the Bureaus units: Crisis Prevention and Intervention Unit (CPIU) Health and Justice EpiCenter and Transitions to Community (T2C) Policy Operations and the Bureau Administrative team.

Provide overall strategic direction programmatic oversight staff leadership and drive research and evaluation for the Bureau.

Includes over 140 staff procurements research and data agreements and over $24 million dollars in FY24 contracts and fiscal agreements.

Principal advisor to the Executive Deputy Commissioner and at times the Commissioner of Health on all Bureau matters and content expert on community safety criminal justice and health.

Member of Division of Mental Hygiene senior leadership team

Partner and collaborate with other Mental Hygiene divisional bureaus and offices as well as other divisions within the Department

Represent the Bureau/Division/Department to mayoral offices government and nongovernment partners including maintaining strong working relationships with constituent groups providers and the communities of NYC

Represent Bureau policy priorities including: advocating for policy shifts around access to care and services pre and postincarceration building legislative agendas and a host of other key issues impacting NYC s justiceinvolved population with health issues

Represent the Bureau Mental Hygiene and the Department in various forms of public facing events including public hearings presentations town hall meetings community board meetings etc.

Drive racial equity/social justice in all the Bureaus work.

Qualifications :

1. Graduation from an approved medical school a license to practice medicine in the State of New York completion of an approved internship and completion of an approved residency in psychiatry; and (3) years of progressively responsible administrative or executive experience in Psychiatry in community mental health organization or in a psychiatric institution employing the integrated services of psychiatrists psychologists and social workers; or

2. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in psychology sociology anthropology public health social work education or related field; and five (5) of fulltime experience in an administrative or executive capacity in responsible charge of a social psychiatric or health agency or a major division thereof; or

3. A satisfactory equivalent.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime