As part of a new study funded by the Wellcome Trust, Darby Jack is measuring the effects of heat exposure during pregnancy on birth outcomes, child development, and overall mortality.
A Columbia sociologist makes a case for a sex-positive epidemiology that considers pleasure, satisfaction, and well-being alongside familiar outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections.
Health departments continue to face challenges in recruiting new employees including insufficient funding, a shortage of people with public health training, and lengthy hiring processes.
When Jeremiah Johnson explored HIV on a national level, he realized that the fear and shame he had experienced in his personal journey with HIV was only amplified in conversations surrounding the disease.
Brief risk-reduction counseling at the time of a rapid HIV test did not reduce new STIs during the subsequent six months among persons at risk for HIV.
Research to delay aging would have better population health and economic returns than advances in individual fatal diseases such as cancer or heart disease, according to Mailman study.
Maternal psychological distress combined with exposure to air pollution during pregnancy have an adverse impact on the child’s behavioral development, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.