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- 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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- HIV Prevention and Care Among Black Cisgender Sexual Minority Men and Transgender Women: Protocol for an HIV Status-Neutral Cohort Study Using an Observational-Implementation Hybrid Approach
- Trends in Suicide Among Black Women in the United States, 1999-2020
- Trends in Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder Among U.S. Veterans With and Without Psychiatric Disorders Between 2005 and 2019
- An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease
- Has the opening of Amazon fulfillment centers affected demand for disability insurance?
- Maternal early pregnancy body mass index and bipolar disorder in the offspring
- Church Closings Were Associated with Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates: Implications for Community Health Equity
- Behavioral Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Among Children of Women With Epilepsy
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- ASO Visual Abstract: Robot-Assisted Surgery and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Post-prostatectomy Outcomes Among Prostate Cancer Patients
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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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