Our Center is at the forefront of initiating and supporting health projects. We work in food and nutrition, maternal health, child mortality, dental health, water and sanitation, communicable and non-communicable diseases, food production and community health worker training. We participate in and have established several health programs through a collaboration between Columbia University’s Medical College, the Earth Institute, the Institute of Human Nutrition and local academic institutions, government bodies, non-governmental Institutions and the private sector.
Our Programs
Ongoing
The National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center for the Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub awarded a five-year training grant to Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The hub will train promising regional public health scientists on environmental and occupational health sciences data collection and analysis, develop curricular materials, and foster trainees’ ability to translate evidence to support environmental policy. The research component is based at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and carried out in partnership with CGC | Nairobi and researchers at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Makerere University, Uganda; University of Nairobi, Kenya. Additional training partners include the University of Rwanda, Rwanda Kintampo Health Research Centre in Ghana, and the Research and Education Center for Development in Cameroon.Kintampo Health Research Centre in Ghana and the Research and Education Center for Development in Cameroon. For more, click here.
The Center has been undertaking a nutritional study on Pediatric Oncology in collaboration with Columbia's International Initiative for Pediatrics and Nutrition (IIPAN), headquartered at the Irving Medical Centre, University of Nairobi, and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
The study involves training staff members at the pediatric department, and part of the objective is to research nutrition interventions on the incidence of malnutrition at diagnosis and during treatment. In May 2021, Columbia University, through its regional partner (Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi), delivered a donation of five weighing scales and five
stadiometers to KNH.
Past
Watch the webinar: Vaccine Development, Availability and Safety
Watch the webinar: Airborne and Drug Resistant: Perspectives on Tuberculosis Today
Watch the webinar: COVID-19 and Sexual and Gender Based Violence
The President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) was launched in March 2013 by President Emeritus Lee C. Bollinger to increase global opportunities for research, teaching, and service. The initiative supports Columbia faculty in developing projects and research collaborations within and across the University’s 11 Columbia Global Centers.
Student Resources
Columbia School of Nursing commenced the first Global Practicum Program in Kenya and partnered with Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi (CGC | Nairobi), the School of Nursing - University of Nairobi and Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) to enable students to learn more about real-world experiences and scenarios that enable them to be better prepared to provide accurate and independent diagnoses. CGC | Nairobi caught up with students and learned more about their experiences at KNH, why they chose to undertake their practicum in Kenya, and the lessons they would take from their practicum practice at KNH.