More than 130 faculty, staff, and students from the Mailman School of Public Health volunteered with local community groups on April 19, highlighting the school’s commitment to community engagement.
A symposium commemorated the accomplishments of the program, one of the first academic programs in the world to address the deficiencies in health services provided in humanitarian response.
A new initiative brings researchers in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology closer to understanding the impact of the environment on women's health.
Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a mechanism that can give energy-storing white fat some of the beneficial characteristics of energy-burning brown fat. The findings, based on studies of mice and of human fat tissue, could lead to new strategies for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. The study was published today in the online edition of the journal Cell.