Events

The Dean's Lecture Series The 44th Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture “The Enduring Legacy of Compassionate Presence in Serious Illness”   presented by Betty Ferrell, RN, PhD, MA Director and Professor, Division of Nursing Research and Education Department of Population Sciences City of Hope Biography   Monday, April 3, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. Alumni Auditorium | 650 West 168th Street, 1st Floor Reception to follow in the Schaefer Awards Gallery Registration is required. Virtual option available.    This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM About the Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture at VP&S

Kate Barnhart, Rev. Jacques Andre DeGraff, Rosita Romero, and Peggy Shepard will take part in a discussion moderated by Dean Linda P. Fried exploring the National Public Health Week theme Centering and Celebrating Cultures in Health. Columbia Mailman School of Public Health is proud to participate in the American Public Health Association's annual National Public Health Week. Our community events, reflecting this year’s theme “Celebrating and Centering Cultures in Health,” brings together students, faculty and staff along with colleagues from our Northern Manhattan neighborhoods and Columbia University's Irving Medical Center. Presented in partnership with The Office of Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion (ODCI). Kate Barnhart, Founder & Director, New Alternatives for Homeless LGBT Youth Rev. Jacques Andre DeGraff, Choose Healthy Life Clergy Leader, New York, Advocate, Activist, Leader, and Strategist Rosita Romero, Executive Director, Dominican Women’s Development Center Peggy Shepard, Co-founder and Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Member, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Board of Advisors Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH (moderator), Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice, Professor, Epidemiology and Medicine, Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center, Director, Columbia Aging Center Hybrid Event: Register to attend in-person or view the discussion online. Explore all NPHW events at Columbia Mailman School.

Abstract: Religious institutions are linked to better human health, for entire communities, not just people who attend religious services. Religious institutions address structural inequalities through food assistance programs to stem food insecurity. Many provide social services that fill gaps of unequitable health care access for socioeconomically marginalized populations. The physical space of religious institutions facilitates social cohesion among people, which reduces risk factors such as social isolation that are linked to poor health. There is a growing trend of religious institutions closing, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. In this seminar, I describe the epidemiology of the problem in New York City and discuss empirical associations between church closing and health outcomes. I conclude with a discussion of how to use these data to inform equitable policies to mitigate collateral effects that religious institution closings have on vulnerable populations. Dr. Ransome completed a Bachelor of Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, an MPH from the University of Michigan, a DrPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and a postdoc at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health. He is the Founder and Director of Studies on Religion, Ethnicity, Technology, and Community Health (STRETCH) Lab at Yale.

Details To Be Announced.   Join us every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. ET for the wildly popular Tissue Talks, our weekly webinar series hosted by Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, and the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering. Don't miss the opportunity each week to hear from global leaders in Tissue Engineering! Did you miss a Tissue Talk? Video recordings are available for a short period of time following each talk* on our YouTube channel HERE! *Each recording is subject to speaker consent; some talks may not be recorded.