Alice ! Health Promotion Program.  100 m.i.l.e. (minutes I logged exercising) Club is an exercise motivation program that offers the University community an opportunity to learn about, design, and track personal fitness activities using an online, interactive tool. Participants set individual exercise goals and record progress on their personalized exercise journal. The 100 m.i.l.e. club is open to all Columbia students, faculty, staff, and alumni.  Progress is measured according to the number of minutes a user spends exercising. The goal is to spend at least 100 minutes per week doing physical activity.

Bard Athletic Center, located in Bard Hall, is a comprehensive facility designed to meet the fitness needs of students and administrators. The facility is open to Medical Center Students, Faculty, Officers of Administration, and Staff, Post Doctoral Research Fellows, Alumni, and Employees of Presbyterian Hospital, NYS Psychiatric Institute, Audubon Research Park .  For more information, call 212.304.7010

Be Fit to Be'ne'fit – a health initiative to help employees, their families and students maintain a healthy body weight.

• Know your BMI (Body Mass Index)
• Fun Walks
• Yoga & Salsa Classes
• Nutrition information in Cafeterias
• Vending machines made healthier

“City Life is Moving Bodies” (CLIMB) Project is a

Northern Manhattan community-based initiative founded on the belief that safe parks and neighborhoods are essential to community health, and that all communities, regardless of socioeconomic background, are entitled to access to safe parks and neighborhoods. The purpose of the project is to combat the problems of gang violence, drugs, obesity, sedentary lifestyles and displacement by engaging residents and organizations in creating a sense of neighborhood and park ownership. At the core of the CLIMB project is the creation of a multi-use urban hiking trail to link the escarpment parks of northern Manhattan – Highbridge Park , Jackie Robinson Park, St. Nicholas Park, Morningside Park and northern Central Park . In addition to physically stringing these “emerald beads” together, we propose that there are opportunities for conceptually linking organizations, institutions and residents in the vicinity of the parks to create and/or strengthen programming and services that address neighborhood needs.  For more information, or to join CLIMB, call 212.740.7292, or e-mail Dr. Lourdes Hernández-Cordero, ljh19@columbia.edu

Healthy Monday

People plan their lives around the week with Monday as the start. What if each and every Monday of every week became the day to start and sustain healthy behavior?  Imagine what could happen if health organizations, government agencies, voluntary health groups, schools, businesses and individuals all came together to make Monday the start of a healthier life.  Well, Monday would become..."The Day All Health Breaks Loose"...and that's what Healthy Monday is all about!

For more information, call 212.740.7292, or e-mail Mike Hernandez

NYPH Employee Fitness Center

Located at the Service Building , 627 West 165th Street .  For more information, call 212.305.1800

Tobacco Cessation Clinic - The Tobacco Cessation Clinic at the School of Dental and Oral Surgery has a program designed to help employees with smoking cessation. It has a 55% success rate, 4% higher than the Mayo Clinic! The program of tobacco cessation is run every Wednesday from 9am to 3 PM on the 8th floor of the Vanderbilt Clinic. Employees must register and make an appointment to participate. For more information, call Cheryl Ragonesi, at 212.305.9054

Wellness Works! As the health promotion program of the Student Health Service and the Center for Student Wellness, Wellness Works! offers a number of workshops and seminars each month that are open to students and university personnel alike.