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Marking 10 Years of Health Research in Central Asia, with Louisa Gilbert and Angela Aifah

AIDS has spread at an alarming rate over the past couple of decades within Central Asia, a region that is closely tied to the Silk Road, once an important trade route between China and Europe. The epidemic is fueled, experts believe, by … Read more
Wednesday December 17th, 2014

The Ebola Crisis as Seen from the Lens of International Social Work

With the deaths of thousands of people in West Africa, the World Health Organization has called the latest Ebola outbreak “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.” But does this reality, and the threat the virus poses … Read more
Tuesday October 28th, 2014

Talking to Professor Nabila El-Bassel about Setting, and Stepping Up, the Pace of AIDS Intervention

Originally posted by the Columbia School of Social Work —Compiled and edited by ML Awanohara July 22, 2014   The Communications Office at the Columbia School of Social Work caught up with Nabila El-Bassel, the Willma and Albert Musher Professor of Social … Read more
Tuesday July 29th, 2014

LAUNCH EVENT: Special Supplement on Central Asia for “Drug and Alcohol Dependence”

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014 – 2:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Mailman School of Public Health, Hess Commons Room Description: With guest editors Willma and Albert Musher Professor Nabila El-Bassel; University Professor (Mailman School of Public Health) Wafaa El-Sadr; and Steffanie … Read more
Friday March 14th, 2014

Wings of Hope Project Adapts the WINGS Intervention for Women Drug Users in Kyrgyzstan

BY ANA SINGH Funded by the Open Society Foundations (2012-2013), the Wings of Hope project will test the feasibility and preliminary effects of the Women Initiating New Goals for Safety (WINGS) intervention, which was designed to increase the identification of … Read more
Friday March 14th, 2014