Researchers at Columbia are tackling cancer disparities in northern Manhattan and surrounding areas through the National Cancer Institute’s network of community-based research programs.
“Early life exposures and early life social opportunities have an impact on later life,” said the senior author, Jennifer J. Manly, a professor of neuropsychology at Columbia.
Now an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, she sees health care as part of a larger picture: If people’s housing is unhealthy, they will be, too.
Yaakov Stern, a neuropsychology professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, recommends maintaining “educational and mentally stimulating activities throughout life.”
Jennifer Manly, a neuropsychology professor at Columbia University, told CNN that scientists have been monitoring a cohort of adults over age 65, many from the Washington Heights area, since 1992.
The study’s lead author was Dr. Justin Golub, an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
