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Language barriers often prevent Spanish-speaking individuals from receiving necessary mental health care.
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For National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we spoke with employees who identify as people with disabilities about their experiences working at Columbia.
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Each summer, hundreds of college and secondary school students from across the city and country fill VP&S classrooms and labs to begin their journeys into STEM careers.
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Columbia psychology faculty member Jon Freeman explains the role he played in a data collection change that could help retain people in STEM who identify as LGBTQ+.
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Latest News
- October 23, 2020
At a virtual reception, the Kenneth A. Forde Diversity Alliance honored six members of the VP&S community dedicated to supporting diversity and minority health in medical education and patient care.
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- August 14, 2020
Panelists Lorraine Frazier, Linda Fried, and Donna Lynne will discuss career growth, leadership challenges, and ways to balance priorities.
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- July 17, 2020
One of the office's first initiatives is to assemble advisory deans to provide career guidance and resources to VP&S faculty seeking professional development opportunities.
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- June 9, 2020
On June 8, hundreds of members of the CUIMC community observed 9 minutes of silence to demonstrate a shared commitment to making Black lives matter at Columbia and beyond.
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- February 12, 2020
While pursuing her education as a geneticist, Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH, witnessed the early days of the AIDS epidemic and changed fields to help address it.
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- February 12, 2020
Lorna Dove, medical director for the liver transplant center at CUIMC, was drawn to her field partly because of the close relationships she is able to develop with her patients.
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- February 12, 2020
Raised in a poor neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, George Jenkins and two friends fulfilled a pact they made in high school to become doctors.
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- January 29, 2020
The CUIMC Staff Diversity Council develops, implements, and evaluates initiatives that create a more inclusive community at the medical center.
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- January 2, 2020
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has launched new initiatives to expand the number of women and underrepresented minorities among the medical school's faculty and leadership.
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