Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Mailman School of Public Health, is the public health graduate school of Columbia University. Located on the Columbia University Medical Center campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, the school is recognized by the Council on Education for Public Health.

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
TypePrivate
Graduate school
School of Public Health
Established1922
Parent institution
Columbia University
DeanLinda P. Fried
Academic staff
500
Students1,404
Alumni12,000
Location
New York City
,
United States
Websitemailman.columbia.edu

The Mailman School is considered a preeminent school of public health in the United States. The school began in 1922 as the DeLamar Institute of Public Health.[1] It became an official school within the university in 1945. In 1999, following a $33 million grant from the Joseph L. Mailman Foundation, the school was renamed the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health.[2]

The school is ranked among the top public health schools in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report.[3] Currently, the school enrolls over 1,400 students and is one of the largest recipients for sponsored research pertaining to public health.[2]

History
The entrance to the Allan Rosenfield Building at the Mailman School.

In 1918, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons received a $5 million endowment from the estate of mining magnate Joseph DeLamar to establish an educational program in public health, which led to what would become the School of Public Health.[4] The DeLamar Institute of Public Health opened its doors at Columbia in 1922 and the following year began offering the Master of Science in Public Health degree.[5] In 1940, the Doctor of Science of in Public Health degree was offered for the first time.[4][5]

On July 1, 1945, the designation of "Institute of Public Health" was changed to the "School of Public Health" by the Trustees of Columbia University.[6] In 1946, the School of Public Health began offering the Master of Public Health degree, in addition to the Master of Science and the Doctor of Public Health degrees.[6] In 1967, the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program was established, followed in 1972 by the award of a T32 training program to psychiatric epidemiologist Bruce Dohrenwend from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which continues today.[7] A Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in epidemiology was also established.

In 1998, the Mailman Family Foundation endowed the school with $33 million, at the time the largest gift ever given to a school of public health. The school was renamed the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health in recognition of the businessman and philanthropist.[8][5]

In 2012, the school redesigned and implemented a new Master of Public Health (MPH) degree to meet global health challenges, which has since become a model at other schools worldwide.[9][10]

The Center for Infection and Immunity comprises three floors of the Mailman School. It is led by W. Ian Lipkin, who has been lauded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony S. Fauci, and is known as a "master virus hunter" due to his speed and innovative methods of identifying new viruses. From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, 50 to 60 CII researchers began collaborating with researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in China. Dr. Lipkin had advised the Chinese government and the World Health Organization (WHO) during the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, for which China awarded him its highest honor in January 2020.[11][12]

Educational programs

The Mailman School offers MPH, MHA, MS, PhD, and DrPH (Doctor of Public Health) degrees. The school's educational offerings include 10 dual degree programs with other schools at Columbia University.

Faculty

Linda P. Fried serves as dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health at the Mailman School. A researcher of healthy aging and longevity, her work helped define the syndrome of frailty. She designed Experience Corps, a program in 22 cities that puts older volunteers to work in public schools, yielding benefits to all generations. Fried has been recognized by Congress as “a living legend in medicine”.[13]

More than 470 faculty members work in over 100 countries, as well as in the Northern Manhattan community. Their research areas include climate and health, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, healthy aging, maternal health, mental health, environmental toxins and children's environmental health, climate and health, epigenetics, the human microbiome, the history and ethics of public health, healthcare reform and how to strengthen healthcare systems, among many other critical issues.

Department chairs

  • Biostatistics - F. DuBois Bowman, PhD
  • Epidemiology - Charles Branas, PhD
  • Environmental Health Sciences - Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, MPH
  • Health Policy and Management - Michael S. Sparer, PhD, JD
  • Population and Family Health - Terry McGovern, JD
  • Sociomedical Sciences - James Colgrove, PhD (interim)

Student demographics
  • 1,404 students
  • 86% master's students
  • 14% doctoral students
  • 44 states represented
  • 52 countries represented
  • 23% non-U.S. citizens
  • 46% ethnic/racial minorities

Employment

Six months after graduation, 96% of its master-level graduates were employed in public health or health care (88% of respondents) or continuing their studies in graduate school (8% of respondents).[14] Of the remaining 4% of graduates, half were not seeking a job by choice and only 2% of the respondents were still seeking. The overall average salary 6 months after graduation was $77,495 annually.[14]

International Longevity Center

Organized in 1990 by Robert N. Butler, M.D., professor of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The International Longevity Center (ILC) is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan research, policy and education organization whose mission is to help societies address the issues of population aging and longevity in positive and constructive ways and to highlight older people's productivity and contributions to their families and to society as a whole.

In 2011, honoring the wishes of the late Butler, the mission, work, and the assets of the ILC became the foundation for an interdisciplinary center on aging at Columbia University, anchored at the Mailman School of Public Health.

The climate and health program

The Mailman School houses the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, a global network of 300+ Universities committed to educate their students on health impacts of climate change. The school houses the only climate and health training program funded by the National Institutes of Health for doctoral students and postdoctoral trainees, and has a Master of Public Health certificate program in Climate and Health.

Epigenetics and Precision Medicine at the Mailman School of Public Health

Since 2017, the Mailman School offers a summer Epigenetic Boot Camp for Planning and Analyzing DNA Methylation Studies, a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions that provides an overview of concepts, techniques, and data analysis methods utilized in human epigenetics studies.[15]

The Laboratory of Precision Environmental Biosciences, regarded as one of the pioneering epigenetics labs worldwide, is the central focus of a wider Precision Medicine program at the Mailman School, focusing on public health and prevention.[16] That includes research and education on the human microbiome, extracellular RNA communication, molecular epidemiology, genomics, viromics, mitochondriomics, statistical genetics, computational biology, and biomarker sciences. Precision Medicine offers a unique combination of cutting-edge lab technology with large scale studies and applications in population sciences and public health, including predictive analytics and analysis of return on investment.[17]

Facilities

The Mailman School of Public Health's main facility, the Allan Rosenfield Building, was constructed in 1930 at 1050 Riverside Drive in 1930 on the Columbia University Medical Campus. It served as the original New York State Psychiatric Institute until it was moved to a nearby newly constructed facility in 1998. The building is named after Allan Rosenfield, a long-time dean of the Mailman School who was referred in The New York Times as a "giant in the world of public health."[18] Renovation work on the building included increased sustainable features.[19]

Notable alumni
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See also

References
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