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5 Questions on the Supreme Court's Texas Abortion Decision

John Santelli, a professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, says he was “quite happily surprised” by the decision, calling it “a great victory for women, for reproductive health, and for American medicine.” Here he discusses what it means.
5 Questions - Public Health - Law - Supreme Court
Climate Change Columbia experts

Patrick Kinney and Madeleine Thomson

Experts Discuss Impact of Climate Change on Health

In 2009, The Lancet, one of the oldest and most prestigious medical journals in the world, declared climate change to be the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. Seven years later, it still is.

Climate - Public Health - Disease
Columbia Great Grad 2016 Kathleen Bachynski

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Doctoral Student Tackles the Public Health Implications of Youth Football

Kathleen Bachynski, who is receiving a doctorate in sociomedical sciences, studies the health risks of youth sports. Her dissertation on the dangers of football has been widely praised and was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Commencement - Public Health - Neuroscience
Columbia Great Grads 2016 Kevin Tyan, Jason Kang and Katherine Jin

Undergraduate Team Founds Startup With Prize-Winning Ebola Decontamination Solution

Friends since freshman year, Kevin Tyan, Jason Kang and Katherine Jin entered the 2014 Columbia Design Challenge on Ebola and created an additive that improves decontamination and ensures healthcare worker safety.
Commencement - Public Health - Engineering - Entrepreneurship
Dyan Summers Columbia University Grad 2016

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Nursing School Doctoral Graduate Finds First Zika Case in the U.S.

When Dyan Summers’ patient suggested he might have a disease called “Zika Fever” in 2013, she was dubious. In her 15 years as a certified nurse practitioner specializing in tropical medicine, Summers had diagnosed malaria, Dengue fever and more.
Commencement - Public Health - Epidemiology - Nursing

Ask Alma's Owl: A Leader in Public Health, Charles Chandler

I study chemistry in the Chandler Building. Can you tell me what its namesake, Charles Chandler did for New York? —A Healthy Chemist
New York City - Ask Alma's Owl - Public Health
Columbia Law School Professor Carol Sanger on Abortion Law

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5 Questions on the Supreme Court's Latest Abortion Case

Columbia Law School Professor Carol Sanger, an expert in family law and abortion rights, discusses the latest case to challenge abortion law, which will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, March 2.
Law - Public Health

SensorKit

SensorKit takes activity detection to a more granular level, allowing your app or device to detect a wide variety of cardio, calisthenics, and weight training exercises on the fly.

Entrepreneurship - Public Health

Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, Cartoonist, Draws on Medical Training

Like the superheroes in the comic books he collected, Benjamin Schwartz (CC’ 03, P&S ’08) grew up feeling he had two identities.

Public Health - Arts - Comics

Michael Sparer on the Affordable Care Act

Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court will render its decision in King vs. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act.

Law - Supreme Court - Public Health

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