Columbia Study on Community-Based Disease Management Initiative Finds Community Health Workers Are Critical to Program’s Success
Published: May 25, 2012
In 2005, local leaders in New York City came together to address the burden of asthma in Northern Manhattan, where the rate of pediatric asthma-related emergency department visits was approximately four times the national average. Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, with support by Merck, Inc., developed ...
Columbia Holds Free Cancer Info & Screening Session for Community on May 24, 2012
Published: May 22, 2012
Columbia University Medical Center & NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Hold Free Cancer Information & Screening Session for Community Members Thursday, May 24, Event is Free & Open to the Public WHAT: Columbia University Medical Center’s Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center (NYPH/CUMC) will co-host ...
Researchers and Community Leaders Identify Approaches for Research to Improve Northern Manhattan Health Outcomes
Published: March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012 --Improving health care in Northern Manhattan requires stronger collaborations between physician-scientists and community members, and a federally funded study co-led by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the Dominican Women’s Development Center has identified several ways to help researchers and the community work together. Through the National Institutes of Health Partners ...
CDC Funds Program for Minority Students Focused on Public Health and Biomedical Science
Published: November 4, 2011
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Columbia University a $3.7 million federal grant for a five-year program to implement the Summer Public Health Scholars Program, a partnership among the four schools of Columbia University Medical Center: the Mailman School of Public Health, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College ...