Health and Aging Expert Dr. Linda Fried Named Dean-Designate of Mailman School of Public Health; Dr. Fried Greets CUMC Community at Welcoming Event
Columbia University has named Linda Fried, MD, MPH, as the next dean of the Mailman School of Public Health. University President Lee C. Bollinger and Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences Lee Goldman, MD, MPH, made the announcement. The appointment of Dr. Fried, who will succeed long-time Mailman School Dean Dr. Allan Rosenfield, is effective May 2008..
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Mailman School Hosts "Moments in Leadership" Book Event
On February 6, students, faculty, staff and alumni filled Hess Commons to hear long-time colleagues and friends Barbara DeBuono, MD, Jack Geiger, MD, and Allan Rosenfield, MD, discuss the pivotal role public health leaders and activists have played in influencing health policy in the U.S. and around the world. The event kicked off the School's "Learning from Leaders" series for the spring semester. Ian Lapp, PhD, associate dean for Academic Affairs and Education and the organizer of the program, noted that "these events are an essential part of the extended curriculum of the School, bridging classroom learning with the knowledge and experience of leading figures in public health."
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Scientists Confirm Discovery of New Virus Responsible For Deaths of Three Transplant Recipients From Single Donor in Victoria, Australia
In the first application of high throughput DNA sequencing technology to investigate an infectious disease outbreak, scientists from the Mailman School, the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIRDL) in Melbourne, Australia, the Centers for Disease Control, and 454 Life Sciences link the discovery of a new arenavirus to the deaths of three transplant recipients who received organs from a single donor in Victoria, Australia in April 2007. The full findings are published in the March 2008 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and are now online.
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Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health Receives $10.4 Million Grant from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to Study Childhood Asthma
The Mailman School's Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) has received a $10.4 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study environmental contributors to childhood asthma. The grant was awarded via a new NIEHS initiative called Disease Investigation through Specialized Clinically-Oriented Ventures in Environmental Research, or DISCOVER, that is designed to integrate environmental health research with patient and population-based studies.
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Mary Gamble First Recipient of the American Society of Nutrition's Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award
Mary Gamble, PhD, assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences, is the first recipient of the American Society of Nutrition's Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award. This award is given to an investigator within ten years of postgraduate training, for outstanding research on the safety and efficacy of bioactive compounds for human health. The award of $2,500 and an engraved plaque, made available by The Council for Responsible Nutrition, will be presented to Dr. Gamble in April.
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Wafaa El-Sadr Delivers Annual Arthur Ashe AIDS Endowment Lecture
In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2007, Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, delivered the annual Arthur Ashe AIDS Endowment Lecture at Weill Medical College of Cornell University with a lecture entitled, "Scale-up of HIV Treatment: Can It Transform Healthcare Services in Resource-limited Countries?"
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Epiville Case Study Mirrors Real-life Mystery Disease
In an uncanny instance of life imitating classroom “art,” a recent news story about the emergence of a mystery illness in a small Minnesota town struck a familiar chord with Mailman School students and faculty who have taken, or taught, the School’s core course, Principles of Epidemiology. The class employs a Web-based program called ‘Epiville,’ which simulates unexpected public health crises such as the outbreak of disease and other natural and man-made disasters. Students must then use a series of exercises to help them overcome these real-life challenges.
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Board of Overseers Chairman James Harden, Bus '78, MPH '83, Assumes Key University Alumni Leadership Role at Columbia
At its third annual Worldwide Alumni Leadership Assembly in November, the Columbia Alumni Association Assembly elected James Harden (Bus '78, MPH '83) as CAA chair. Harden, president and CEO of Catholic Health Services of Long Island, has long been engaged as a graduate of both Columbia Business School and the Mailman School. He is chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Mailman School and has served on the University's Trustee Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing and the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee.
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Anti-Drug Coalition Led by Kat Allen, MPH '04, Wins Prestigious Award
The Community Anti-Drugs Coalition of America (CADCA) and its National Coalition Institute named the Franklin County Communities That Care Coalition as one of three national organizations to win the 2007 Got Outcomes! Coalitions of the Year award. The winners were selected for their innovative and community-wide strategies to curb underage drinking, binge drinking, and illicit drug use among youth.
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Lisa Soloff Wins the New York State Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Student Essay Competition
Lisa Soloff, a student in the Department of Health Policy and Management, has won the 5th Annual New York State Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (NYHIMSS) Student Essay Competition with her essay titled "Marketing Health IT to Medical Students." The HealthcareInformation and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
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