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PubMed Feed- Novel approach to the codesign of a tailored intervention bundle: applying theory with pragmatism
- Firearms as a Market-Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm-Related Harm in the United States
- The Impact of Indirect Transport to a Trauma Centre on Survival for Major Trauma Patients: A National Propensity-Adjusted Observational Study
- The Dual Burden of Weight in YMSM: Structural Inequities and Body Image Pressures
- Perinatal depression and breastfeeding: a longitudinal investigation of the bidirectional relationship in Pakistan
- Estrogen metabolites in premenopausal women living in China, Mongolia, and the United Kingdom
- Associations of social and genetic background variables to neuro-cognitive biomarkers of psychosis
- Adverse sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental healthcare in six low- and middle-income countries (MASC): a mixed-methods study with lessons for the future
- Cannabis Effects on Neurocognition and HIV-Related Outcomes: Protocol for a Longitudinal Observational Cohort Study
- Dispatch disparities: Neighborhood segregation as a predictor of EMS triage discordance among critically injured trauma patients
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The Built Environment and Health Research Group is looking to hire a Post-Doc
The Built Environment and Health Research Group (BEH.Columbia.edu) is looking for candidates to fill a post-doctoral fellow position at the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. The position will be at Columbia University but they … Continue reading
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Business travel and behavioral and mental health
In new work, Rundle and colleagues find that extensive business travel is associated with poorer behavioral and mental health – smoking, sedentary behavior, trouble sleeping, alcohol dependence, depression and anxiety. The paper was recently published online at the Journal of Occupational … Continue reading
Hospital Financial Distress and Quality of Care
Catherine Richards, an alum of the Department of Epi’s Masters and Doctoral programs, and colleagues recently published an article in JAMA Surgery showing that women treated at hospitals experiencing financial distress were significantly less likely to receive immediate breast reconstruction surgery after … Continue reading
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Measuring Neighborhood Physical Disorder: Man on the Street verses Google Street View
Following is a post by Steve Mooney on a recently published paper. Dr. Mooney is an alum of the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology and the Social Epi Cluster. We’ve done a lot with Street View at the Built Environment and Health … Continue reading
Leaving racism behind: residential migration and Black-White health disparities
Cluster member Sarah McKetta, working with Lisa Bates, Mark Hatzenbuehler, Bruce Link, Charissa Pratt, and Katherine Keyes, recently published research regarding state-level racism, residential mobility, and Black-White health disparities. Studies consistently demonstrate that among racial minorities, living in a more … Continue reading
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Do racial patterns in psychological distress shed light on the Black-White depression paradox?
Former Cluster doctoral student David Barnes, now with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and current faculty member Lisa Bates recently published a systematic review in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology investigating racial patterns in psychological … Continue reading
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Social Worker’s Attitudes towards Immigrants and Refugees
Cluster faculty member Andrew Rundle and colleagues, Yoosun Park (Smith College School for Social Work) and Bhuyan (Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto), were recently funded by Smith College to launch a nationwide survey of social worker’s attitudes … Continue reading
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Why aren’t women riding for roses at the Kentucky Derby?
Cluster faculty member Kerry Keyes and colleagues just published a piece at CNN.com on gender discrimination in horse racing. “No women will ride in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. That isn’t unusual. Old race result charts (which are like box scores) show … Continue reading
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Lisa Bates to receive the Columbia Presidential Teaching Award
Cluster faculty member, Lisa Bates will receive a 2017 Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award. This award is given to Columbia University’s best teachers for commitment to excellent and often innovative teaching. Bates teaches the Epidemiology Department’s Social Epidemiology Course.
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Webinar Online – Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City
Dr. Rundle’s March 2nd webinar for the ISBNPA webinar has been posted online at ISBNPA’s web site (Here and embedded below). His talk covered different approaches to assessing neighborhood walkability and the link between urban design and resident’s physical activity using New York … Continue reading