Cheryl G. Healton is the founding president and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation and has worked for over a decade to further the foundation’s ambitious mission: to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. She has guided the highly acclaimed, national youth tobacco-prevention campaign, Truth, which has been credited in part with reducing youth smoking prevalence to near record lows. Legacy is dedicated to evidence-based public health strategies that work and has undertaken numerous other public education campaigns, research, technical assistance, and a broad program of grantmaking under her leadership. Healton joined Legacy from Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, where she served as chair of the Division of Sociomedical Sciences and associate dean for program development.

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