# Ngina Lythcott, Dr. P.H.

Ngina Lythcott is the Vice Dean and Dean of Students at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. She is former Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Lythcott's doctoral degree is in Public Health; she has masterâs degrees in Public Health and clinical Social Work as well as a bachelorâs degree in Nursing. She has done extensive health promotion and disease prevention work in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, substance abuse, adolescent pregnancy, and violence with residents of low-income communities, using a community organization and development model. A 15-year breast cancer survivor, Dr. Lythcott is currently the Breast Cancer Liaison for the Black Women's Health Imperative (formerly the National Black Women's Health Project). She is a member of the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Integration Panel, and is the Chair of the Survivors and Allies Committee of the Jean Sindab African American Breast Cancer Research Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is a former member of the National Cancer Institute Director's Special Population Working Group and a former member of the Steering Committee for the National Action Plan for Breast Cancer.