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Submission Form: https://form.jotform.com/252439021693154  Art As Medicine is an exhibition supported by the Columbia University Mental Health Initiative "Capturing Perspectives on Mental Health", which seeks to capture diverse perspectives on mental health across our community. This call for submissions invites students, faculty, staff, and researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center to share creative works that reflect personal experiences with mental health challenges, resilience, and well-being. Academic life often brings unique challenges. Whether it’s students managing uncertainty and pressure, faculty balancing research and teaching demands, or staff carrying out institutional responsibilities, these strains can take a quiet but significant toll on mental health. Yet creative expression offers a powerful way to process, connect, and restore. Through this exhibition, we aim to create a compassionate and safe space where art serves as a source of healing and dialogue. By sharing your work, whether visual, digital, sculptural, written, or otherwise, you join a collective effort to spark connection and remind us all of the strength that emerges when creativity and community come together. Submission Guidelines & Criteria Flat work (Photography, paintings, illustration, collage, mixed media) - cannot exceed 40"x40" Digital Work (Photography, design, digital painting/drawing) - high resolution PNG Sculpture of any kind, must be easily movable Video must be high-res and no more than 3-5 minutes Short written works (500 words max), such as poems or excerpts from longer works, are also accepted Up to 3 submissions accepted per artist All submissions should highlight original work that was created as a way to cope with mental health struggles, as well as used as a form of healing. Selected works will be shown during our one-night-only exhibition on November 20th from 5-8PM at the Riverview Lounge in the Allan Rosenfield Building (ARB). If you have any questions about submitting or the project in general, please email the project team at art.as.medicine.mhi@gmail.com. Our project team thanks you for sharing your inner world with our community.  Carolina Montes Garcia (staff member and student) Jaime Benavides (researcher) Lewis Ziska (faculty member) Kathrin Schilling (faculty member) Dawn Devito (curator and collaborator)

This training session will cover: Opioid overview  What an opioid overdose is  Signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose  What increases the risk of opioid overdose  Medication for opioid use disorders  What naloxone is and how it works  Naloxone kit: components and use  Response steps for a suspected overdose  How to administer naloxone  How to use Fentanyl Test Strips Distribution of naloxone and Fentanyl test strips kits Fentanyl test strip and naloxone trainings are currently offered in-person to all members of the Columbia community, including Barnard College, Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Attendees will be able to take a fentanyl test strip and naloxone kit or a naloxone kit only. *Columbia Health is a Registered Opioid Overdose Prevention Program, recognized by New York City and State Departments of Health. This designation came as part of a collaboration with researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health and the School of General Studies. Learn more about our Opioid Education and Naloxone Training program on our website.  Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require closed captioning, sign-language interpretation, or any other accommodation, please contact Disability Services at (212) 854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu at least 10 days in advance.

At a moment of profound change in global health, join our next PopTalks as Dr. Thoai Ngo (Chair, Columbia PopFam) hosts Professor Judd Walson (Chair, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) for a timely conversation on reimagining the global health architecture.  This special PopTalks will explore the urgent need to reimagine global health for equity.  Amid shifting funding landscapes, new geopolitical realities, and widening inequities, the field faces pressing questions:  How can we build a more just and sustainable global health system?  What role should schools of public health play in training leaders and shaping solutions?  How can global health leaders advance equity and impact in an era of uncertainty?  Together, Drs. Thoai Ngo and Judd Walson will examine what it will take to move beyond the status quo—and how academia, practitioners, funders, and policymakers can work together to chart a future with equity at the center of global health.  About Our Guest  Dr. Judd Walson is the inaugural Robert E. Black Chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A physician trained in internal medicine, pediatrics, and infectious diseases, his work focuses on interventions to improve child survival, growth, and development across Africa and South Asia.  He co-leads the CHAIN Network, advancing strategies to reduce mortality among acutely ill children, and leads the DeWorm3 trial, a landmark study working to eliminate intestinal parasites affecting vulnerable communities.  *Open to everyone online, and in-person participation is reserved to Columbia University affiliates.  

Medicine Grand Rounds Lecture & Lunch hosted by Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and Columbia's Department of Medicine. S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Professor of Global Public Health, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University.  He is the author or editor of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press); Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press); Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press); The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press); Current Controversies in Bioethics (Routledge), and over 70 articles in philosophy and bioethics.  He has given TED and TEDx talks in New York and CERN, Switzerland, and he has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper’s Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American and other media outlets.  https://www.vagelos.columbia.edu/departments-centers/centers-and-institutes/columbia-center-clinical-medical-ethics