Profile: Suzanne Michael

Dr. Suzanne Michael comes to CWW with diverse experiences as a program director/evaluator, researcher, policy analyst, grant writer, and educator. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in sociology, social work and public health (Hunter College, Adelphi University and Lehman College). She has also led numerous staff development trainings.

While at Adelphi, Dr. Michael established and directed the inaugural years of the Vital Signs’ project resulting in a series of epidemiological studies and monographs about Long Island’s social health, which have informed policies and programs across Long Island’s public and non-profit sectors and have been used in the academy.

Prior to her academic appointments, Dr. Michael was director of Program Development/Community Affairs for the New York City Department of Health's Division of Child and Adolescent Health. She also coordinated NYC’s Pediatric HIV/AIDS School Review Committee.  

A founding member of the Center of Immigrant Health (now affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering), Dr. Michael has worked extensively to increase the delivery of culturally and linguistically appropriate health and social services to immigrant communities.

Early in her professional career, Dr. Michael worked as a therapist with diverse inner city families in Brooklyn, New York. She has authored journal articles, monographs, research reports, and book chapters and been on the editorial board of peer review journals.

Dr. Michael received her doctorate in sociology from City University of New York, Master of Science degree from Columbia University’s School of Social Work, and her Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton.