Message From the Directors
Dear students, faculty, and guests,
The Program for Education in Global and Population Health, better known as Global Pop, seeks to support the emergence of a new generation of leaders in global and population health, abroad and at home, through pedagogy, research and field experiences.
Graduate students from across the CUIMC are exposed to several dimensions that expand from purely health-specific to include social, legal, economic, governmental, environmental, and cultural, all of which greatly impact health outcomes and inform our understanding of what Global and Population Health is.
Wherever possible, we also seek to link students’ international or domestic global and population health experiences with efforts to improve the health care of vulnerable populations.
Our September 17th symposium highlights the student projects we sponsored through our Summer Research and Cross-cultural programs, for which active planning and preparation started as early as the Fall of 2019.
Efforts to strengthen global and population health can be testing in the best of times. With the world experiencing the worst pandemic in a century, students and mentors faced extraordinary challenges this year in their efforts to conduct impactful and educationally enriching projects. Through an outstanding joint effort, mentors, students, on-site partners, and staff all contributed to reconfigure projects originally set at over 20 locations abroad (plus NYC) into remote projects, in a matter of weeks. We invite you to peruse the results of their remarkable tour de force.
Please join us in congratulating the students, mentors, donors, and staff who made all these projects possible.
Sincerely,
Lawrence R. Stanberry, MD, PhD
Director, Program for Education in Global and Population Health
Associate Dean for International Programs
Professor of Pediatrics
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Tania Genel, MBA, MPP
Program Director, Program for Education in Global and Population Health
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University Irving Medical Center