The Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York (OCME) is a department within the city government that investigates cases of persons who die within New York City from criminal violence;by casualty or by suicide;suddenly,when in apparent good health;when unattended by a physician;in a correctional facility;or in any suspicious or unusual manner. The OCME also investigates when an application is made pursuant to law for a permit to cremate the body of a deceased person.
NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City,New York,United States. The health system consists of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Long Island School of Medicine,both part of New York University (NYU),and more than 300 locations throughout the New York metropolitan area,including six inpatient facilities:Tisch Hospital,Kimmel Pavilion,NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital,Hassenfeld Children's Hospital,NYU Langone Hospital –Brooklyn and NYU Langone Hospital –Long Island. It is also home to Rusk Rehabilitation. NYU Langone Health is one of the largest healthcare systems in the Northeast,with more than 46,000 employees.
Thomas R. Frieden is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives,a $225 million,five-year initiative to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease.
Irwin Redlener is an American pediatrician and public health activist who specializes in health care for underserved children and disaster planning,response,and recovery. He is the author of The Future of Us:What the Dreams of Children Mean for 21st Century America (2017) and the author of Americans at Risk:Why We Are Not Prepared for Megadisasters and What We Can Do Now (2006).
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg is an American physician and public health administrator,who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.
Healthcare in New York City describe the health care services available in New York City,the largest US city with a population of over eight million. In 2020 approximately 50,000 physicians were working in the city.
The Commissioner of Health of the City of New York is the head of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The commissioner is appointed by the Mayor of New York City,and also serves on the city's Board of Health with the chairperson of the Department's Mental Hygiene Advisory Board and nine other members appointed by the mayor.
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who was the 17th Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health,being appointed to the position by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 29,2021,until December 31,2022. From 2014 to 2018,she was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
New York City was affected by the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s more than any other U.S. city. The AIDS epidemic has been and continues to be highly localized due to a number of complex socio-cultural factors that affect the interaction of the populous communities that inhabit New York.
African Americans constitute one of the longer-running ethnic presences in New York City,home to the largest urban African American population,and the world's largest Black population of any city outside Africa,by a significant margin. As of the 2010 Census,the number of African Americans residing in New York City was over 2 million. The highest concentration of African Americans are in Brooklyn,Harlem,Queens,and The Bronx. New York City is also home to the highest number of immigrants from the Caribbean.
The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1,2020,and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic,with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019. By April 10,New York had more confirmed cases than any country outside the US. As of August 11,2023,the state has reported 131.3 million tests,with 6,722,301 cumulative cases,and 79,960 deaths.
Syra Madad is an American pathogen preparedness expert and infectious disease epidemiologist. Madad is the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals where she is part of the executive leadership team which oversees New York City's response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the city's 11 public hospitals. She was featured in the Netflix documentary series Pandemic:How to Prevent an Outbreak and the Discovery Channel documentary The Vaccine:Conquering COVID.
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City was confirmed on March 1,2020,though later research showed that the novel coronavirus had been circulating in New York City since January,with cases of community transmission confirmed as early as February. By March 29,over 30,000 cases were confirmed,and New York City had become the worst-affected area in the United States. There were over 2,000 deaths by April 6;at that stage,the city had more confirmed coronavirus cases than China,the UK,or Iran. Bodies of the deceased were picked up from their homes by the US Army,National Guard,and Air National Guard.
Oxiris Barbot is an American pediatrician who served as the Commissioner of Health of the City of New York from 2018 to 2020. She was then appointed to public health positions with Columbia University and the JPB Foundation,and in 2022 became president and chief executive officer of the nonprofit United Hospital Fund.
Philip F. Foglia was an American lawyer,prosecutor,civic activist,politician,and advocate for Italian-American rights issues. Most recently,Foglia led a campaign to construct a statue honoring Frances Xavier Cabrini,an Italian-American Catholic nun more commonly known as Mother Cabrini,after the proposal was initially rejected by a New York City commission.
Kravis Children's Hospital (KCH) at Mount Sinai is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located at the Mount Sinai campus in Manhattan,New York City,New York. The hospital has 102 pediatric beds. It is affiliated with The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,and is a member of the Mount Sinai Health System. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants,children,teens,and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region.
Michelle Evelyn Morse is an American internist. She is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founded EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium. In 2021,Morse was named the first Chief Medical Officer of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Jay Varma is a physician and epidemiologist who is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of SIGA Technologies. He previously served as senior advisor for public health and COVID-19 to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Ashwin Vasan is an American physician and epidemiologist serving as the 44th commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Vasan is also a public health professor and practicing primary care doctor at Columbia University,and was most recently the president and CEO of Fountain House,a national mental health nonprofit.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.
