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Mental Health

How much does happiness matter? Preventing mental illness, understanding the effects of trauma, aging, and substance abuse, and reducing the stigma attached to behavioral disorders, scientific exploration of mental health is central to this field.

Faculty in Mental Health

Angela Aidala

Associate Research Scientist

Sociomedical Sciences

Alan Brown

Professor

Epidemiology and Psychiatry at the Columbia University Medical Center

Bruce Link

Special Lecturer \ Professor of Emeritus

Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences

Claude Mellins

Professor

Medical Psychology (in Sociomedical Sciences and Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Christina Hoven

Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Carol Caton

Professor of Clinical

Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Christine Mauro

Assistant Professor

Biostatistics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Denise Kandel

Professor

Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)

Dale Hesdorffer

Professor

Epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Ezra Susser

Professor

Epidemiology and Psychiatry

Francine Cournos

Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology

Guohua Li

Professor

Epidemiology

Helena Duch

Adjunct Professor

Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Jeffrey Fagan

Professor

Epidemiology

Kim Hopper

Professor of Clinical

Sociomedical Sciences

Katharina Janus

Adjunct Associate Professor

Health Policy and Management

Katherine Keyes

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Karolynn Siegel

Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Lawrence Yang

Associate Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology

Mady Hornig

Associate Professor

Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center

Mark Hatzenbuehler

Associate Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Myrna Weissman

Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Madelyn Gould

Professor

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Yuval Neria

Professor

Psychology (In Epidemiology and Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Patrick Wilson

Associate Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Qixuan Chen

Associate Professor

Biostatistics

Renee Goodwin

Adjunct Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Robert Klitzman

Professor

Psychiatry (in Sociomedical Sciences) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Renata Schiavo

Senior Lecturer

Sociomedical Sciences

Sandro Galea

Adjunct Professor

Epidemiology

Silvia Martins

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Xinhua Liu

Professor

Biostatistics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Esteban Calvo

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Epidemiology (in CAC)

Vegard Skirbekk

Professor

Population and Family Health (In the Columbia Aging Center)

George Musa

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Helen-Maria Lekas

Associate Professor of Clinical

Sociomedical Sciences

Harold Pincus

Professor

Psychiatry (in Health Policy and Management)

Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

Assistant Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Annika Sweetland

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Sociomedical Sciences (In Psychiatry)

Pia Mauro

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Seth Prins

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences

Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology (In CAC)

Larkin McReynolds

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (In Psychiatry)

Janna Metzler

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Population and Family Health

Michael Phillips

Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology and Psychiatry

Linda Valeri

Assistant Professor

Biostatistics

Kathleen Sikkema

Stephen Smith Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Kara Rudolph

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Jeremy Kane

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

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Too Often Doctors Stigmatize People Living with Mental Illness

“So what medications are you taking?”I’m in a Brooklyn CityMD on a Saturday morning, waiting to be diagnosed with what I suspect is strep throat. The physician’s assistant is asking the standard screening items about allergies and surgeries, and she has now gotten to the question I’ve been d

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Just Published

Pachankis, J.E., Hatzenbuehler, M.L., Wang, K., Burton, C.L., Crawford, F.W., Phelan, J.C., & Link, B.G. (2017). The Burden of Stigma on Health and Well-Being: A Taxonomy of Concealment, Course, Disruptiveness, Aesthetics, Origin, and Peril Across 93 Stigmas. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. View abstract.

Sederer, L.I. (2017). The One With Friends: A TV Show Within a Play. JAMA. View abstract.

Hatzenbuehler, M.L., Prins, S.J., Flake, M. … & Hirsch, J. (2017). Immigration Policies and Mental Health Morbidity among Latinos: A State-Level Analysis. Social Science & Medicine. View abstract.

Goodwin, R.D. (2017). Next Steps Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking and Depression/Anxiety Disorders: A Lifecourse Perspective. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. View abstract.