{"id":152562,"date":"2026-03-04T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152562\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:54:06","slug":"nycs-new-health-commissioner-discusses-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/152562\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s new health commissioner discusses agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While much of the city was focused on last Monday\u2019s snowstorm, Dr. Alister Martin was marking his first day as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2026\/01\/mayor-mamdani-announces-new-appointments--including-commissioner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City\u2019s new health commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin comes to the role from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he built a career in emergency medicine and public policy.<\/p>\n<p>Now leading the city\u2019s health department, <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/03\/02\/mamdani-s-new-health-commissioner-says-agency-will-focus-on-affordability\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he faces a broad agenda<\/a> that includes addressing public health disparities, strengthening the city\u2019s emergency preparedness and navigating an evolving health care landscape.<\/p>\n<p>In his first interview since taking office, Martin sat down with Spectrum News health reporter Erin Billups to discuss his priorities and vision for the department.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While much of the city was focused on last Monday\u2019s snowstorm, Dr. Alister Martin was marking his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2952,25,54129,2953,9,24,55,54,12,56,27,200],"class_list":["post-152562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-health","tag-app-top-stories","tag-erin-billups-national-health-reporter","tag-health","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}