Health & Medicine

On April 1, 2024, the center organized an orientation session for nursing students from the Columbia School of Nursing.

Using mutlidisplinary and transdisciplinary research approaches to enhance the livelihoods of communities in Northern Kenya 

The Mumbai Center  partnered with Columbia University’s Institute for Training Outreach and Community Health for a day-long symposium.

The Masters Direct Entry program is designed to teach nursing students more about real-world experiences and scenarios.

Addressing the importance of equitable access to vaccines, both during and beyond pandemics, Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, delivered the Distinguished Yusuf Hamied Lecture online.

Building on the initiative to strengthen research on menstrual health through its Period of Life project, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai conducted an online workshop entitled ‘Resources for Menstrual Health: Proposal Writing, Research Design and Funding Access’ on April 17, 2023.

Research and training workshop focused on environmental and occupational health in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo 

Colorectal cancer screening and optimal strategies lecture by Chin Hur, Columbia University Irving Medical Center professor.

Sydney Fontalvo will research the effect of different countries’ levels of individualism on older adult loneliness and depressive symptoms.

Professor Maya Deyssenroth, a 2021 Yusuf Hamied Fellow, delivered a talk entitled Perinatal Signatures of Exposure-Induced Health Outcomes.

Dr. Linda Fried, Dean of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, delivered the Fourth Distinguished Yusuf Hamied Lecture online.

On April 5, 2022, CGC | Mumbai organized an orientation program for six nursing students from Columbia School of Nursing, to familiarize them with the public health landscape and nursing ecosystem in India.

To understand the current status of TB and discuss recent advances in research and control, Columbia Global Centers Mumbai and Nairobi organized a panel discussion with leading experts on the topic,

A moral compass, epitomized by caring for the sick with compassion, is one of the essential building blocks of an effective healthcare system, remarked Vikram Patel, Pershing Square Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School.