New is an active member of the New York State Public Health Council, the Public Healthy Policy Advisory Board, the National Advisory Research and Resources Council of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Development Program, the Task Force on Childhood Violence, and the Leading Edge Endowment Fund of British Columbia. She also serves as a consultant for the New York State Newborn Screening Program and for the Food and Drug Administration's Endocrine and Metabolic Drug Advisory Committee, was the President of the Endocrine Society in 1992, was Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism for over six years. In 2006, she was awarded the Allan Munck Prize by Dartmouth Medical School.