Columbia Public Health Magazine 2020-2021
Pandemic
Preparing • Responding • Moving Forward
Letter from the Dean
Coming Together in a Pandemic
"As ever, it is our mission as public health professionals to ensure every person’s right to health, dignity, safety, and wellbeing."
Features
Prepared for a Pandemic
Decades of focus on infectious diseases from every corner of the campus meant Columbia Mailman School was poised to take a leadership role in the fight against COVID-19.
BY JIM MORRISON
Frontiers in Food
The School’s food curriculum is plentiful and varied, and comes at the topic from every angle. Students are eating it up.
BY SHARON TREGASKIS
Learning to Lead
Seven alumni share the lessons they learned that ensured they were ready to take on a trailblazing role in public health.
BY NANCY AVERETT
The Cannabis Comeback
Use of the substance is on the rise and the School’s experts are exploring what this means for public health.
BY ALLA KATSNELSON
Public Health in Prison
The pandemic has brought the importance of caring for people in the carceral system and the larger carceral community into the spotlight.
BY ALEXANDER GELFAND
Let the Data Do the Talking
Three faculty members working at the intersection of public health and big data talk about statistics and science.
INTERVIEW BY TIM PAUL
Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution
The School announces a new initiative to transform Columbia Mailman into an antiracist, multicultural, and fully inclusive institution.
Departments
MOMENTUM
Learning during the pandemic • Students publish op-eds • The School commits to antiracism • Reproductive health at the fore • Honors, awards, and more
IMPACT
A time for syndemics • Studying schizophrenia’s origins • COVID-19 and obesity • New bullying insights • Opioid overdose solution • Folate missing in Mexico, and more
FACULTY, STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS
Graduates • Scholars • Alumni on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Fight
Full Issue
DEAN
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Vanita Gowda, MPA
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Dana Points
ART DIRECTOR
Diana Gazzia
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Tim Paul
COPY EDITOR
Emmalee C. Torisk
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