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Noemi Rodriguez, DrPh, MPA
718-260-5283
Assistant Professor
Director, Healthcare Policy and Management Bachelor of Science
Department of Health Sciences
City Tech (NYC College of Technology)/CUNY
Dr. Rodríguez, Assistant Professor, is the originator and the director of the Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Policy and Management degree program in the Department of Health Sciences at City Tech. She has taught health management courses for nearly 20 years at CUNY, including Hostos Community College and the CUNY School of Professional Studies (undergraduate and graduate-levels).
Dr. Rodríguez has experience in both public health and health care. As a Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, she led and supported internal and external projects to improve agency processes and to facilitate collaboration with other City agencies (e.g., employee breastfeeding policy and protocols to accommodate lactating mothers return to work, a departmental confidentiality policy, and cold blue protocols for the City’s homeless population). She has engaged in research with the Section on Health Choice, Policy, and Evaluation in the Department of Population Health at the New York University School of Medicine. Key projects included understanding the food environment in low-income neighborhoods, food retailers’ challenges with healthy food retail, and food shopping behaviors among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries. Within the healthcare sector, Dr. Rodríguez has worked on quality assurance projects at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, and at the San Juan De Dios Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Rodríguez has a Master of Public Administration with a focus on health policy from the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Doctor of Public Health in health policy and management from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Her research focuses on policy and health equity with attention to childhood obesity and nutrition outcomes among low-income children utilizing complex national secondary datasets (e.g., FoodAPS). Other research interests include equitable access to nutrient dense foods, the influence of the community food environment on food acquisition and health outcomes, medical interpretation education and its implementation in healthcare settings, and assessment in higher education.