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Twenty years ago, when AIDS was devastating communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Columbia's Wafaa El-Sadr created an organization to save lives in some of the continent’s hardest-hit countries.
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Meet nine graduate students in the Mailman School's Climate and Health Program, the first such program in a school of public health, and learn how they are fighting the threat of climate change.
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A cost-effectiveness study led by a Columbia medical student suggests liquid biopsies are not yet up to the task of screening for colon cancer.
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Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, was named interim dean of the Columbia Climate School in July 2023.
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- December 7, 2022
Bullying toward gay and lesbian adolescents increased between 2015 and 2019, when nearly half of gay and lesbian teens faced bullying.
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- December 1, 2022
Obstacles remain before the world reaches the point of eliminating AIDS, but new prevention technologies and outreach programs are reasons to be optimistic about the future.
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- November 29, 2022
What you think you know about healthy eating may be incorrect. A Columbia nutritionist sets the record straight--and shares a recipe too.
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- November 21, 2022
The diminished power of the immune system in older adults is usually blamed on the aging process. A new study shows that decades of inhaled particulates due to air pollution also take a toll.
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- November 15, 2022
Chronic liver disease is surging in the United States. No group is more affected than Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI).
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- November 11, 2022
Eligible older adults who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may have slower memory decline than eligible people who do not participate, according to a new study.
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- November 9, 2022
The recipient of public health's most prestigious award discusses how a required course during medical school in Egypt influenced her career.
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- October 31, 2022
Columbia University's Mailman School and five other schools of public health will conduct research to help remedy a public health workforce that has been stretched thin by the COVID pandemic.
- October 14, 2022
Menthol cigarette use among adult smokers has increased, and banning menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes in the United States could have widespread impact on public health.
- October 14, 2022
El-Sadr was awarded the Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health for her groundbreaking work in global HIV research, treatment, and care.
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