Drew Velting, PhD, MPH

Dr. Drew Velting (he/him) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York with experience in academic research, clinical practice, teaching, and applied public health work and recently completed an MPH at the Yale School of Public Health. Earlier in his career, Dr. Velting served as Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, where his research focused on the prevention and treatment of depression and suicidal behavior in adolescents. His current interests include child and adolescent mental health, environmental health, and the effects of environmental exposures and contextual stressors on psychological well-being, particularly among disadvantaged youth. He also has a longstanding interest in mindfulness and recently developed and taught an eight-week mindfulness practicum for MPH students at Yale.