The President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) awards grants for faculty members to collaborate with Columbia’s network of global centers. The program aims to enable the development of new projects and scholarly collaborations across global centers, in order to increase global opportunities for research, teaching, and service. 

PGIF 2017

• 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

PGIF 2016

• 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

PGIF 2015

• Collaborations for Developing the Science Base for Improved Air Quality in India
  Ruth DeFries, Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute

• Covering Religion: A Global Perspective
  Ari L. Goldman, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism and Yogi Trivedi, Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Journalism

• Building Human Capital in Developing Countries: An Interdisciplinary Research Program with Adaptive Technologies
  Supreet Kaur Anand, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and School of International and Public Affairs 

• Building a South Asian Public Health Network: A Collaboration of Columbia University's Global Center, Mumbai, India and the Mailman School of Public Health
  Cassie Landers, Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health

• Colonization and Decolonization in the Making of the Modern World: an Intensive Summer Course Taught in Rio de Janeiro and New Delhi
  Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Longitudinal and Cross-­national Study of the Effects of Retirement on Health
  Ursula Staudinger,Robert N. Butler Professor for Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of Psychology; Director, Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center

• Digital Justice: Public Discourse, Censorship, and the Technologies of Dissent
  Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

• Advancing Sustainable Waste Management in Latin America and Disseminating the Results to Other Developing Regions
  Nickolas J. Themelis, Stanley Thompson Professor Emeritus; Director, Earth Engineering Center

PGIF 2014

• Global Mental Health Research Consortium and Scholars Program
  Kathleen Pike,Professor of Psychology and Education in Psychiatry and Epidemiology at CUMC, College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health
• Screenwriting and Creative Producing Workshops for Columbia Global Centers
  Ira Deutchman, Professor of Professional Practice, School of the Arts

PGIF 2013

• Global Public Management
  William Eimicke, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Executive Director, Picker Center of Executive Education, Brian Keith Perkins Senior Lecturer and Director, Urban Education Leadership Program, Teachers College and Michael Sparer, Professor of Health Policy and Management

• Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM) Project
  Sheena Iyengar, S.T. Lee Professor of Business, Research Director at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business

• Children’s Global Oral Health Initiative (CGOHI)
  Shantanu Lal, Associate Professor of Dental Medicine, Director, Predoctoral Program in Pediatric Dentistry 

• Ifriqiyya: The Indian Ocean and Trans‐African Slavery Networks
  Mahmood Mamdani,Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology

• Global Mental Health Research Consortium and Scholars Program
  Kathleen Pike, Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology

• The Columbia Global Humanities Project
  Sheldon Pollock, Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies

• Global Migration Network
  Julien Teitler, Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Sandro Galea, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology

• Regional Foodshed Resilience: An Interdisciplinary and International Practicum
  Nicola Twilley, Director, Studio-X NY