Topics Subscribe to this feed

Global Health

Columbia Dermatology Trains Vietnamese Physician to Read Skin Biopsies

January 7, 2016

A dermatologist in Vietnam travels to New York for a six-week Columbia tutorial to become the only person in her region of the country qualified to interpret skin biopsies.

Computer Model Reveals Deadly Route of Ebola Outbreak

A Mailman research team modeled the spread of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone for future real-time use of disease outbreaks elsewhere.

Study Found Prenatal Exposure to Ukrainian Famine Increased Odds for Diabetes

A study by Mailman School of Public Health researchers links exposure to famine in the first trimester of pregnancy with the risk of developing diabetes in later life.

Battling Arsenic Poisoning in Southeast Asia

Some 100 million people in southeast Asia drink from shallow wells originally drilled to provide germ-free water, but many are contaminated with arsenic. Columbia researchers, including Mailman School scientists, are working to combat the issue.