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HONORS AND NEW TEAM MEMBERS
Lipkin Joins Task Force
W. Ian Lipkin, MD, the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia Mailman School, is one of a group of scientists and public health leaders convened by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to be part of a new international task force to consider trends and oversight of high-risk pathogen research.
Navas-Acien Named to Cancer Advisory Board
President Joe Biden appointed Ana NavasAcien, MD, PhD, MPH, to the National Cancer Advisory Board, which plays an important role in guiding the National Cancer Institute. A professor of Environmental Health Sciences and member of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Navas-Acien has more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and leads multiple National Institutes of Health-funded research projects.
Pei Receives Pilot Grant
Sen Pei, PhD, assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences, is the recipient
of a $50,000 pilot grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study zoonotic threats. Pei will be one of three principal investigators on a project titled “Impact of Climate Variability on Foreign Animal Disease: Forecasting Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.”
De Pinho Selected as Teaching Scholar
Helen de Pinho, MBBCH, MBA, FCCH, associate dean of educational programs and assistant professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, has been selected to be a 2023 Provost’s Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar. As one of eight from across the University, she will create a plan for supporting, changing, and innovating the culture of teaching and learning within her own department or school and across campus.
Fried Awarded French Honor
Dean Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, received the Insignia of the Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest order of merit. The award recognizes her scientific advances on aging and her outstanding public health leadership.
Chowkwanyun Receives Award
Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH, is the 2022 recipient of the Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award in Population Health from the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. The award recognizes significant contributions to population health science by an individual who has received a PhD or MD in the past 10 years.
Miller Reappointed to Research Advisory Panel
Gary W. Miller, PhD, vice dean for research strategy and innovation, has been invited to serve a second term on the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program advisory panel. All of Us is collecting data from a diverse group of 1 million U.S. participants for a database that will inform thousands of studies for decades to come.
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Welcome, New Team Members
COLUMBIA MAILMAN SCHOOL HAS HIRED TWO KEY ADMINISTRATORS WHO WILL HELP SHAPE THE SCHOOL IN ITS SECOND CENTURY.
YVONNE ORTIZ, MEd, ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI), will bring her considerable expertise working with students and educational institutions to deepen and elevate DEI initiatives across the School. Her work will include strengthening the sense of belonging and shared community across the School and supporting the recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and staff from marginalized communities.
A former university dean of student affairs and medical school director of DEI, Ortiz has a strong history of aligning communities to enhance instruction, leadership, systems, and culture to promote equity.
JOHN BEARD, MBBS, PhD, IRENE DIAMOND PROFESSOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTER-USA, will lead the Center’s work to translate knowledge of global trends in healthy longevity and catalyze societal change that can enable people of all ages to reimagine the second half of life. From 2009 to 2019, Beard was director of the Department of Ageing and Life Course with the World Health Organization, where he led major global initiatives. He has worked extensively with the World Economic Forum, including as chair of their Global Agenda Council on Ageing, and was a commissioner with the recent U.S. National Academy of Medicine Commission on Healthy Longevity.
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