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Research Projects
The Mumbai Center develops, supports, and disseminates innovative and interdisciplinary research initiatives in partnership with faculty at Columbia University and regional experts and institutions. The Center is committed to promoting former President Lee C. Bollinger's vision of harnessing the strengths of academia and deepening its capacity to address key global challenges. Research activities at the Center are currently focused on four thematic areas that have deep global and regional significance, including (i) Environmental Sustainability (ii) Education, Culture, and Knowledge (iii) Health and Medicine and (iv) Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
- The Period of Life: Improving Menstrual Health and Knowledge in India project aims to address critical gaps in menstrual health and knowledge and broaden the understanding of the subject beyond menstrual hygiene and sanitation to education and research about the physical, psychological and social dimensions of menstrual health.
- The Yusuf Hamied Fellowship is aimed towards strengthening public health research in India with a focus on Health and Environment, Access to Treatment, and Population and Family Health. Initiated in 2018, the fellowships are awarded annually for three research residencies in India to public health faculty at the Mailman School and to three faculty members in Indian educational institutions for short-term residencies at the Mailman School.
- Generativity in Deprived Urban Contexts; Older Adults’ Experiences in Slums in Mumbai, Nairobi, and among Haitian Immigrants in New York
Ruth Finkelstein, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Medical Center, Mailman School of Public Health and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health - Storm Surge Risk to Mumbai: A Challenge to Sustainable Urbanization in India's Largest City
Adam Sobel, Professor, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Collaborations for Developing the Science Base for Improved Air Quality in India
Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute
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