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- Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal investigation of the bi-directional relationship
- Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
- In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
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- Correction : Epidemiology and outcomes of early-onset AKI in COVID-19-related ARDS in comparison with non-COVID-19-related ARDS: insights from two prospective global cohort studies
- Suicide Following the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak: Variation Across Place, Over Time, and Across Sociodemographic Groups. A Systematic Integrative Review
- Investigating a Paradox: Towards Better Understanding the Relationships Between Racial Group Membership, Stress, and Major Depressive Disorder
- Social, educational, and psychological health correlates of e-cigarette and combustible cigarette use among adolescents in the US from 2015 to 2021
- Spring is associated with increased total and allergenic fungal concentrations in house dust from a pediatric asthma cohort in New York City
- Breast cancer risk prediction combining a convolutional neural network-based mammographic evaluation with clinical factors
- Standards in responsibly sharing cohort data for transparency and reproducibility: response to the Young Lives Study
- Nicotine Vaping and Co-occurring Substance Use Among Adolescents in the United States from 2017-2019
- Changing adolescent activity patterns and the correlation of self-esteem and externalizing mental health symptoms across time: results from the USA from 1991 through 2020
- Epidemiologic Trends and Risk Factors Associated with the Decline in Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in the United States, 1990-2019
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Lessons Learned From Dear Pandemic, a Social Media–Based Science Communication Project Targeting the COVID-19 Infodemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified excessive COVID-19-related information as a public health crisis, calling it an “infodemic.” The infodemic has been exacerbated by uncertainties inherent in an emerging infectious disease and the scientific process more generally. Together with … Continue reading
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – Advanced Training in Environmental Health and Data Science: Molecules to Populations
Postdoctoral Fellowship Advanced Training in Environmental Health and Data Science Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University The Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health … Continue reading
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Mapping Widget for Populations At Risk for Severe COVID-19
The team at PolicyMap.com created a widget for us to dispaly interactive maps showing the locations of populations at risk of severe COVID-19. The at risk populations we mapped are: the number of people 65 years and older; number of … Continue reading
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Body Mass Index across the Life-Course: Emergence of Race by Sex Disparities in Early Childhood.
In the U.S. 35% of adults aged 20 years or older are obese and the obesity epidemic represents a critical public health issue. There are marked disparities in body mass index (BMI) and obesity prevalence by race/ethnicity and sex. Among … Continue reading
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Intimate partner violence severity and depression in rural Bangladesh—a high prevalence setting
Precious Esie, Lisa Bates, and colleagues recently published their work examining the relationship between the severity of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the risk for a major depressive episode (MDE) in the journal Social Science and Medicine –Population Health. The … Continue reading
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Health Disparities Seminar
As part of the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Unit’s seminar series Dr. Chanita Hughes-Halbert will be speaking on social determinants of health disparities on June 22 in Hess Commons . Dr. Hughes-Halbert is the AT&T Distinguished Endowed Chair in Cancer Equity, … Continue reading
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Aging policy reforms in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico
Social Epidemiology faculty member, Estaban Calvo, just published a review and analysis of aging policy in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico. The article in the Journal of Aging and Social Policy describes how initial charity-based approaches to poverty and illness were gradually replaced by a rights-based approach considering … Continue reading
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Changing the Narrative on Youth Violence Prevention
The Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention are co-hosting a seminar on March 27th by Dr. Monica Wendel, “Changing the Narrative on Youth Violence Prevention”. Dr. Wendel is the Associate Dean … Continue reading
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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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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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