Dr. Colin 'Coke' McCord was credited with helping protect untold millions of New Yorkers from health hazards including second-hand smoke.
Donate nowDr. Colin “Coke” McCord, who as a surgeon, public health administrator and advocate helped draw attention to stark health disparities in Harlem and impoverished communities around the globe, and two decades ago successfully pushed to extend the city’s exception-riddled indoor smoking ban to include all bars and restaurants, has died at his home in Oxford, England, at 94.
Dr. Thomas Frieden, the city’s health commissioner from 2002-09, told Gothamist that McCord’s legacy extended far and wide. He first worked with McCord in 1990. McCord was the first director of a community-wide program in the South Bronx to reduce teen and unintended pregnancy. He also collaborated with fellow surgeon, cancer expert and leading public health advocate Dr. Harold P. Freeman on a much-noticed The New England Journal of Medicine, “Excess Mortality in Harlem.” It showed that life expectancy for Black men in Harlem lagged even that for men in impoverished Bangladesh.
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