Facts & Figures

Rankings

• Ranked one of top 5 schools of public health by U.S. News & World Reports
• 3^rd highest NIH-funding recipient among schools of public health (based on most recent data, 2012)

Leadership

Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
Dean, Mailman School of Public Health

An internationally renowned scientist, Dr. Fried is a leader in the fields of epidemiology and geriatrics. She has dedicated her career to the science of healthy aging and creating the basis for a transition to a world in which longer lifespans benefit people of all ages and society as a whole. Dean Fried has led the scientific understanding of frailty and disability with aging and opportunities for prevention. She is the co-founder of Experience Corps, a community-based senior volunteer program that has been shown to improve theacademic success of elementary school children while simultaneously promoting the health of the older volunteers. Dr. Fried is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Public Health Association’s Archstone Award and the American Federation for Aging Research’s Irving Wright Award. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and was named a “Living Legend in Medicine” by the U.S. Congress.

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Faculty

• Total faculty: 477
• Nearly 40% of our full-time faculty hold joint or interdisciplinary appointments in 34 Columbia University departments, schools, and centers.

Student Body (2012-2013)

History

School Structure

• 6 Departments

  • Biostatistics
  • Environmental Health Sciences
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Policy and Management
  • Population and Family Health
  • Sociomedical Sciences

• 21 Centers

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  • The Biostatistics Center for Clinical Trials Management
  • The Center for Child, Adolescent, and Family Life Epidemiology (CAFLE)
  • The Center for Community Health & Education (CCHE)
  • The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health
  • The Center for Infection and Immunity (CII)
  • The Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
  • The Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research (CIDER)
  • Center for the Psychosocial Study of Health and Illness (CPSHI)
  • Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health (CSSIH)
  • The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH)
  • Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention
  • The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CHPS)
  • The Harlem Health Promotion Center (HHPC)
  • ICAP at Columbia
  • The Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies
  • The International Longevity Center
  • The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
  • The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)
  • The New York New Jersey Public Health Training Center (NYNJ PHTC)
  • The NIEHS Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan
  • The Statistical Analysis Center for Clinical Trials (SAC)

• 10 Programs

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  • The Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program
  • The Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa
  • Climate and Health Program
  • Columbia Summer Research Institute (CSRI)
  • Epidemiology and Population Health Summer Institute at Columbia University
  • Global Health Initiative (GHI)
  • The Injury Free Coalition for Kids
  • PRIDE
  • Reproductive Health Access, Information and Services in Emergencies (RAISE) Initiative
  • Superfund Research Program

Educational Programs

• Degrees offered: MPH, MS, PhD, DrPH
• Total doctoral degrees offered: 2 in 5 areas of specialization
• Dual degree programs offered in conjunction with other schools at the University: 10
• Classes offered at the Mailman School for the academic year 2011-2012: 300
• Graduate level courses offered at Columbia University: over 1,000
• Median class size at the Mailman School: 20

Alumni

Numbering nearly 12,000 worldwide, Mailman School alumni can be found in leadership positions in government, hospitals, universities, non-governmental institutions, and the private sector.