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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.