The department began in 1945 as the Division of Hospital Administration at a time when post-war optimism in science and medicine led to the construction of more hospitals.
A new imaging technique that can capture movies of individual receptors on the surface of living cells in unprecedented detail could pave the way to a trove of new drugs.
Eliminating racial injustice across our society is one of the defining challenges of our time. We are writing to restate our collective commitment to fight against racism.
An updated connectivity map of the brain's basal ganglia could open new avenues for intervention in Parkinson’s disease and other disorders tied to the movement center.
Jasmine McDonald, assistant professor of epidemiology at Mailman, has received a Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University President Lee Bollinger.
A Columbia neuroscientist and psychiatrist is peering into brain cells for clues that may explain how COVID-19 can lead to depression, anxiety, psychosis, and suicide.
And cases have been stable, though at a high level. “To me that is reassuring,” said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, an epidemiologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
