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Mailman School of Public Health

• Center for Applied Public Health
  
  Danielle Greene,
  Deputy Director
  
  Mailman School of Public Health
  722 West 168th Street, 9th Floor
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-0409
  Fax: 212-305-6832
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Center for Applied Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health is committed to achieving the following goals:

• Work with state and local governments to improve linkages to the school;



• Design new school-wide programs to foster integration of the school’s faculty and students with health service providers;



• Assist divisions in identifying non-traditional sources to support programs of research, training, and service;



• Increase the school’s visibility in the public health practice arena;



• Undertake health services demonstration projects of national significance;



• Develop and conduct, in collaboration with state and local health departments, a planned program of continuing public health education;



• Conduct policy and evaluation studies of regional and national significance;



• Develop innovative programs that both contribute to ameliorating public health problems and offer new models for preventive health services delivery;



• Undertake ongoing development work to support the creation of both social marketing and violence prevention programs of national stature at the School of Public Health and



• Integrate student trainees into all phases of the center’s programs and enhance students’ exposure to the public.



• Harlem Health Promotion Center
  
  Alwyn T. Cohal, MD,
  Director
  
  Nydia Rodriguez,
  Administrative Assistant
  
  Mailman School of Public Health
  21 Audunbon Avenue, 3rd Floor
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel 212-305-8239
  Fax: 212-305-8665
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The mission of the Harlem Health Promotion Center is to reduce excess mortality and morbidity in the Harlem community. The Center was first funded in 1990. The Center works in partnership with community-based organizations, academic institutions, government, and private agencies to achieve its mission through the following activities:

1. Assessing the health status of the Harlem community and examining the risk factors and protective factors that contribute to health status;



2. Planning, implementing and evaluating prevention research programs and strategies designed to reduce mortality and morbidity in the Harlem community;



3. Training future generations of prevention researchers, including students, health care workers and members of the Harlem community;



4. Disseminating research findings and translating research into public health policy programs.



• Northern Manhattan Women and Children HIV Demonstration Project
  
  Nancy VanDevanter, Dr., Ph.D.,
  Principal Investigator
  
  Danielle Greene, M.P.H.,
  Co-Investigator
  
  Cyra Borsey, M.P.H.,
  Project Director
  
  Mailman School of Public Health
  600 West 168th Street
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-0409
  Fax: 212-305-0506
  
  Northern Manhattan Women and Children HIV Demonstration Project is a collaborative project between the School of Public Health and the five northern Manhattan hospitals supported by the Ryan White CARE act Title IV of the Health Resources and Several Administrations (HRSA) and its activities are coordinated with several other federal, state and local programs to ensure comprehensive care, case management and social services to women, children, adolescents and parents infected and affected and at risk of HIV. The goals the project include improving and expanding case management services, ensuring the accessibility and provision of family centered health care, increasing access to community resources, enhancing institutional collaboration in the areas of prevention, health education, social service delivery, advocacy and research that will benefit families who are infected and affected, and to increase prevention efforts through hospital and community based HIV/AIDS education and outreach.



• New York–Virgin Islands: AIDS Education and Training Center
  
  Joann Romano,
  Program Administrator
  
  Mailman School of Public Health
  722 West 168th Street, 10th Floor
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-8291
  Fax: 212-305-3902
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  The New York - Virgin Islands AIDS Education and Training Center, under the leadership of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, is a consortium of institutions and organizations formed to meet the training needs of health care providers now offering or planning to offer services to persons infected with HIV. Included among these private not-for-profit academic health centers are the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, the state’s leading health professionals training agency; the Training Center for Health Professionals, and other key public sector agencies and community organizations. The mission of the NY/VI AETC is to assist health care professionals, through education and training, to provide optimum quality of services and sensitive care to HIV infected persons, to provide information targeted to the prevention of HIV infection and to provide access to current research and treatment of HIV/AIDS.



• Project S.T.A.Y. (Services to Assist Adolescents and Young Adults)
  
  Luis Camacho,
  Outreach Coordinator
  
  Mailman School of Public Health
  21 Audubon Avenue
  New York, NY 10032
  
  Tel: 212-305-5392
  Fax: 212-305-8665
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  This Clinic provides outreach, education, medical services, and social services to HIV infected adolescents and young adults. The project works in collaboration with community agencies.