Events

"Youth at the Forefront: Leveraging Science and Social Inclusion for Sustainable Development” Speakers/panelists (tentative): Vedika Mandapati (Policy Analyst, Global Choices) Abigail Corrao (Educational Lead, GHGAPS) Steven Qi (Staff, African Department, International Monetary Fund) Elina Forsyth (Student, Monash University) Moderator: Danielly Magalhães (Senior Project Director, GCCHE) The Global Health Governance as Public Service (GHGAPS) program educates, equips, and empowers youth leaders across academic and personal backgrounds to effectively engage in governance spaces. Through dynamic, experiential learning with a focus on soft-skills, GHGAPS encourages youth to adopt a systems-thinking approach to address planetary crises across multilateral spaces. GHGAPS serves as an iterative framework for youth across the world to meaningfully advocate for and act towards sustainable development, to better the health of people and the planet. The 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum is adequately timed to discuss not only the increasingly crucial role of youth in global governance, but also the mechanisms by which youth can continue to educate other youth on the importance of engagement. This session will showcase the experiences of youth leaders across multilateral fora and demonstrate areas for cohesion among formal and informal educational programs to further support youth as prepared changemakers. As geopolitical tensions erode the credibility and value of multilateral instituions, it is increasingly important to place trust in youth to advocate for the organizations designed to defend the health and human rights of those who otherwise would be left behind.

Abstract This discussion illustrates how Latine immigrants have managed their racialized status as hyper-exploitable and patronized subjects in the rural sphere since the onset of COVID-19. The analysis draws on community-engaged ethnographic methods comparing West Central Missouri and Cache Valley Utah—each region constituting its state’s agro-industrial corridor. Both are maturing immigrant destinations where Latines’ 1990s settlement for work in meatpacking disrupted rural American White homogeneity. Findings animate how Latines’ COVID-19 experiences on the meatpacking shopfloor have corresponded with distinctive strategies asserting dignity, according to each context’s racial-ideological structure. The talk considers policy implications for Latine residents’ social, familial, and occupational well-being in two ruralities highly dependent on their labor in such hyper-exploitative industry.  Aaron Arredondo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utah State University. His research intersects critical immigration theory with sociology’s newly defined area on the racialization of space. Aaron has named this perspective the spatialization of critical immigration studies (SCIMS). His work has been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Inquiry, among other leading social science journals. Aaron’s book monograph draws on community-engaged ethnographic methods examining Latine immigrants’ experiences of racialized space, labor, and (non-)belonging across diversifying American ruralities.    

Hanina Hibshoosh, MD Faculty Director of MPSR Dept. of Pathology & Cell Biology Title: Overview of of Molecular Pathology Shared Resource (MPSR) Description:   Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD Faculty Director of HIMC Dept. of Med Hematology and Oncology Title: Overview of Human Immune Monitoring Core (HIMC) Description:    Zoom Meeting https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/97847371419?pwd=hNTcbh48XWXbHY2BMFflr6wLYQonOo.1  Meeting ID: 978 4737 1419 Passcode: seminar

Thursday, April 24th 11:45am - 1:00pm, ARB Hess Commons Amita Manatunga, PhD Donna J. Brogan Professor in Biostatistics Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University Model-free Framework for Evaluating the Reliability of a New Device with Multiple Imperfect Reference Standards A common practice for establishing the reliability of a new computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) device is to evaluate how well its clinical measurements agree with those of a gold standard test. However, in many clinical studies, a gold standard is unavailable, and one needs to aggregate information from multiple imperfect reference standards for evaluation. A key challenge here is the heterogeneity in diagnostic accuracy across different reference standards, which may lead to biased evaluation of a device if improperly accounted for during the aggregation process. We propose an intuitive and easy-to-use statistical framework for evaluation of a device by assessing agreement between its measurements and the weighted sum of measurements from multiple imperfect reference standards, where weights representing relative reliability of each reference standard are determined by a model-free, unsupervised inductive procedure. Specifically, the inductive procedure recursively assigns higher weights to reference standards whose assessments are more consistent with each other and form a majority opinion, while assigning lower weights to those with greater discrepancies. Unlike existing methods, our approach does not require any modeling assumptions or external data to quantify heterogeneous accuracy levels of reference standards. It only requires specifying an appropriate agreement index used for weight assignment and device evaluation. The framework is applied to evaluate a CAD device for kidney obstruction by comparing its diagnostic ratings with those of multiple nuclear medicine physicians. This is joint work with Ying Cui, Qi Yu and Jeong H. Jang. Biostatistics Departmental Seminars & Lectures Lectures are in-person only unless marked otherwise. For all Zoom inquiries to attend seminars with a listed virtual option, please send an email to Erin Elliott, Programs Coordinator (ee2548@cumc.columbia.edu). During the Fall and Spring semesters, the Department of Biostatistics holds regular seminars on Thursdays, called the Levin Lecture Series, on a wide variety of topics which are of interest to both students and faculty. Over each semester, there are also often guest lectures outside the regular Thursday Levin Lecture Series, to provide a robust schedule the covers the wide range of topics in Biostatistics. The speakers are invited guests who spend the day of their seminar discussing their research with Biostatistics faculty and students.