The Mailman School of Public Health's
Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies

Inaugural Event to Launch Center for Chronic Homelessness Fun ded by $5 Million Grant from NIMH

--Speakers to address current challenges and solutions --

The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies is a multidisciplinary effort to research homelessness and develop ways to prevent chronic homelessness among people with severe mental illness, who comprise about 25 percent of homeless adults. The Center brings together scientists from many disciplines and departments and is targeted to become a national resource for new methods for prevention and early intervention, providing models for service delivery that could be applicable nationwide as municipalities implement plans to End Chronic Homelessness in Ten Years.

Featured Speakers:

Allan Rosenfield, MD, Delamar Professor and Dean, Mailman School of Public Health

Philip Mangano, MThS, Executive Director, Interagency Council on Homelessness

Fran Winter, JD, Acting Commissioner, New York City Department of
Homeless Services

Carol L.M. Caton, PhD, Director, Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies

Ezra Susser, MD, DrPH, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and Co-Director, Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies

Jeffrey M. Lieberman, MD, Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
5:00-7:00 p.m.

Columbia University's Low Library
Faculty Room
116 th Street and Broadway

CONTACT:
Journalists interested in more information or reserving a space, please contact
Stephanie Berger - 212 305-5635 or sb2247@columbia.edu