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.
Stronger air quality standards that lower the acceptable level of fine particulate pollutants in the air would benefit the health of Black and low-income Americans the most.
Anthony S. Fauci will be presented with the Frank A. Calderone Prize on April 27 in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to protecting and improving the public’s health.
Data collected by cars on driver performance—combined with machine learning—could detect elderly drivers who will soon develop mild cognitive impairment or dementia.
Megan Ranney, a graduate of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Gerard Carrino, who earned his MPH from Mailman, were tapped as deans at two schools.
Elevated levels of air pollutants are associated with bone damage among postmenopausal women, according to new research led by scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Calorie restriction, a proven intervention to slow aging in animals, showed evidence of slowing the pace of biological aging in adults in a study led by the Columbia Aging Center.