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Assessment of Embargo Impact; Establishment of Determinants of Low Birth-Weight Reduction Resilience; and Adaption to Embargo-Related Resource Shortages
School of Nursing
Epidemiologic assessment of embargo effects and public-health strategies to minimize effects. Development of internet-based specialty continuing education in nursing. Program evaluation on activities . . . More »
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Garfield, Richard
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Haiti
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Croatian Medical Journal
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Has been on publication's Advisory Board since the publication's inception.
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Erlenmeyer-Kimling, L
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Croatia
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Cross-National Comparison of Mental Hospital Closures in New York and London
College of Physicians and Surgeons
This project is a cross-national comparison of the effects on quality-of-life patient outcomes related to the closure of psychiatric hospitals in New York and London. The project takes a close look . . . More »
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Toner, John
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United Kingdom
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Disease Prevention as Social Change: Society, Politics and Public Health in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and France
Mailman School of Public Health
Comparative analysis of the sociology and politics of public health in the
United States, Canada, Britain, and France through detailed examination of
four policy arenas, tuberculosis and infant . . . More »
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Nathanson, Constance
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United States of America, Canada, United Kingdom, France
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Eastern European Child Abuse and Child Mental Health Project
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Beginning in 1995, we trained mental-health workers in basic concepts of treatment and prevention of child abuse. We then facilitated the creation of interdisciplinary teams, organized into . . . More »
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Lewis, Owen
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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Moldova
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Project
Ethics of HIV Vaccine Trials: IRB Members' Views
College of Physicians and Surgeons
We are conducting a study of how IRB members in the US, South Africa and other developing countries view and approach the complex ethical decisions that they face concerning HIV Vaccine trials. IRBs . . . More »
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Klitzman, Robert
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South Africa, United States of America
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Global Investment Versus Local? Tuberculosis Elimination is Cheaper Overseas
Mailman School of Public Health
This project examines the costs associated with screening and treating immigrants to the United States for tuberculosis relative to investments required to eliminate the disease overseas. . . . More »
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Muennig, Peter
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United States of America
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International Program on Population Aging in Developing Countries
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Program for Policy Development and Capacity Building On Population Aging In Developing Countries is a joint program of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Columbia's . . . More »
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Nizamuddin, Mohammad
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United States of America
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Law and Policy Project (Reproductive Rights Project)
Mailman School of Public Health
Formerly known as the Reproductive Rights Project, the Law and Policy Project has evolved to incorporate a broader range of concerns relevant to health in the post-Cold War world. These include, for . . . More »
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Freedman, Lynn
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Lecture 1: 'Social dimensions of care givin in chronic illness for the elderly' Lecture 2: 'Principles and applications of social gerontology in developing societies'
Mailman School of Public Health
International Workshop on Preparing for Aging Societies: Meeting New Challenges of Health, Well-being and Poverty in Developing Countries. . . . More »
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Raveis, Victoria H.
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United States of America
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Maintenance and Stimulation of Projects in Support of the Seven Medical Schools, and the Biomedical Research Agencies, in Taiwan.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Maintenance and Stimulation of Projects in Support of the Seven Medical Schools, and the Biomedical Research Agencies, in Taiwan. . . . More »
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Pierson Jr, Richard
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Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Medical and Educational Support for the Republic of Armenia
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Helping health ministry in planning health-care and educational reforms and medical fellowships for Armenian physicians. Establishment of an English-language current-literature section in national . . . More »
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Nercessian, Ohannes
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Armenia
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New York Bioscape: Ecological Land Units
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
A detailed, land cover / habitat digital map is needed as a baseline layer for many regional studies. Such a map would be prohibitively expensive if carried out using traditional methods of aerial . . . More »
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Koontz, Fred
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United States of America
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Oxford Workshop for the History of Childhood
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Oxford Workshop for the History of Childhood at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Program for Pediatrics and the Humanities at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University are . . . More »
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Truman, John
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United Kingdom
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Postgraduate Medical Education: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons
(1) Health-care and educational reforms.
(2) English-as-a-Second-Language courses for Armenian physicians
(3) Establishment of an English-language current-literature section in the . . . More »
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Housepian, Edgar
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Armenia
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Postgraduate Medical Education: Program 2
Columbia University Medical Center
Chair, Postgraduate Medical Fellowship Committee.
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Bilezikian, John
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Armenia
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Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights
Mailman School of Public Health
The Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights seeks to integrate the new scholarship about sexuality into existing work and activism about gender, health, and human rights, as well . . . More »
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Vance, Carole
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India, Hong Kong, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, France, Canada, Mexico
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Project
Social Movements and HIV/AIDS in Brazil
Mailman School of Public Health
This ethnographic research project is the first that examines HIV/AIDS organizing outside of the United States as a form of social movement. In-depth interviewing of AIDS activists, researchers and . . . More »
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Parker, Richard
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Brazil
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Summer Internship at St. Luke's International Medical Center in Tokyo, Japan
College of Physicians and Surgeons
A summer internship for rising second-year medical students in Tokyo, at the St. Luke's International Medical Center. The goal of the overall program is to enrich the medical student experience with . . . More »
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Pierson Jr, Richard
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Japan
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Project
SYSTED
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Only international conference that links support care to the elderly and disabled, and welcomes the academic, practitioner, policy maker, and administrator to share their different perspectives, . . . More »
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Pantel, Ernsetine
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The Brazilian Model for HIV / AIDS Prevention and Control: Analyzing its Components and Assessing its Transferability
Mailman School of Public Health
The on-going
project: The
"Brazilian
Model" for
HIV/AIDS
Prevention and
Control:
Analyzing its
. . . More »
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Parker, Richard
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Brazil
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Project
The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health
Mailman School of Public Health
The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health, established by the Department of Sociomedical Sciences in 2001, promotes research and training activities on the social and cultural dimensions of . . . More »
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Parker, Richard
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Brazil, United States of America, Dominican Republic, Peru
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The Extended Child and Adolescent Mental Health Public Delivery System in Brazil: Dimensions of Exclusion
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The goal of this project is to design a
methodology to describe how child mental
health service delivery has been occuring in
Brazil. A comparative pilot study will be
conducted in 5 sites from a . . . More »
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Duarte, Christiane
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Brazil
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The International Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavorial Studies
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies is a resource for the development of international research initiatives by HIV Center investigators working in . . . More »
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Parker, Richard, Stein, Zena
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Brazil, Namibia, South Africa, United States of America
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The International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy (IWGSSP) was constituted as a global forum composed of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the . . . More »
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Parker, Richard
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Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Spain, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America
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The MacroHealth Initiative
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
The overall objective is to deliver strategic expertise to low-income countries for scaling up health expenditures by government and donors in order to fill serious gaps in the provision of essential . . . More »
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Ruxin, Joshua
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Rwanda, India, China, Ethiopia
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The New York Bioscape: Protecting Biodiversity and Health in a Human/Natural Landscape of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The New York Bioscape initiative brings together NYC metropolitan scientists, health professionals, educators, and civic leaders to conserve biodiversity and ensure the region?s long-term ecological . . . More »
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Koontz, Fred
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United States of America
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Project
The World Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health
Since the beginning of 2004, a small group of
researchers in Child Epidemiology under the
direction of Christina Hoven, have been
reviewing vast amounts of social, political
and economic information . . . More »
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Hoven, Christina
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United States of America
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Women's Socioeconomic Development and Health
Mailman School of Public Health
Throughout the developing world, there is evidence of declining rates of mortality and fertility, yet no clear understanding of the factors driving this change, nor the extent to which these health . . . More »
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Adams, Alayne
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Bangladesh
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