Irwin Redlener, M.D.
Executive Committee Member

Dr. Irwin Redlener is a member of the Executive Committee for the Columbia University Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies. He is Associate Dean for Public Health Advocacy and Disaster Preparedness and Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and president of The Children’s Health Fund, a national organization devoted to providing healthcare to medically underserved children, which he co-founded in 1987. Dr. Redlener is an academic pediatrician who has done important work on health care of homeless children.

Areas of expertise
Healthcare for homeless and indigent children

Selected publications
Redlener, I. (1994). Health care for the homeless--lessons from the front line. N Engl J Med. 331(5):327-8.
Lee, M.A., Haught, K., Redlener, I., Fant, A., Fox, E., Somers, S.A. (year) Healthcare for Children in Homeless Families. In P.W. Brickner (Ed.) Under the safety net: The health and social welfare of the homeless in the United States (pp. 119-138). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.