Population & Family Health

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With a commitment to human rights and human dignity, our faculty conducts groundbreaking implementation science and practice in sexual and reproductive health and rights, forced migration, child and adolescent health, environmental justice, and complex health systems. The department's work has been critical in shifting global and local health policy and practice to improve health systems and health outcomes for populations in low-income, unstable, or inequitable environments worldwide.

Virginia Rauh Makes an Impact Through Mentorship

A profile of Professor Virginia Rauh, 2023 recipient of the Dean’s Excellence in Mentoring Award

Headshot photo of Virginia Rauh on a blue background with Columbia logo

Maternal Health Equity: A Community-Driven Approach to Policy-Relevant Research

A Q&A with Kelli Stidham Hall, reproductive health researcher in the Department of Population and Family Health

Montage of photo of Kelli Stidham Hall, pregnant woman and the words "Faculty Q&A"

An ‘Activist Scholar’ with a Global Health Perspective

In a faculty Q&A, Prof. A. Kayum Ahmed says he is committed to social justice in research and the classroom, with a focus on the “decolonization of human rights.”

Headshot of A. Kayum Ahmed with words Faculty Q&A and photo of apartheid-era restrictive signage in South Africa

Grand Challenges Project Addresses the Complex Needs of Venezuelan Migrants

Columbia Mailman professor Claire Greene discusses her Centennial Grand Challenges project working with Venezuelan refugees in Ecuador.

Collage with headshot of Claire Greene with words Q&A and Centennial Grand Challenges

Health Systems Analyst Tallies the ROI for Humanitarian Interventions

Juliana Bol started working as a research and development chemist in North Carolina, when events halfway around the world turned her career around.