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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

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

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

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

BY ANA SINGH In November 2012, Aira Toivgoo, our GHRCCA Mongolia Director from the Wellspring, NGO, presented a recent, innovative study at a conference on strategies and innovations for asset building in Beijing. The conference, entitled “Lifelong Asset Building: Innovations … Read more