Research Interest: Health and Medicine

Deirdre (“Dede”) Gilmore, one of the five graduate students from the Mailman School of Public Health that have arrived in Chile to perform their global practicums with Universidad Mayor’s Research Center on Society and Health (CISS), will work on a comparative mapping of the

Five graduate students from the Mailman School of Public Health have arrived in Chile to perform their global practicums with Universidad Mayor’s Research Center on Society and Health (CISS).

Nurses and midwives are on the frontlines of pandemic response worldwide, but their stories and sacrifices are often ignored. This event will launch frontlinenurses.columbia.edu, a new site that presents first- person accounts of nurses and midwives from Liberia and Sierra Leone who successfully led their communities through the 2014 Ebola outbreak. We invite you to meet and listen to these nurses and midwives via the links to their website below

Joyce conducted a literature review on loneliness in adults age 50 and above during his stay in Santiago.

In the effort to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture-Sustainable Development Goal (SDG2), and feed it's growing population,  the Kenya government launched the ‘Big 4 Agenda’. The five-year program seeks to achieve rapid results in the four identified development sectors, namely:   manufacturing, universal health coverage, affordable housing, and food security and nutrition.

The Obama Foundation Scholars Program at Columbia University brings together rising leaders from around the world who have demonstrated a commitment to finding solutions to challenges in their communities, countries and regions. Over the course of an academic year, the Obama Foundation Scholars will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and skills and to build new capacities and networks that will accelerate their impact in their home countries.