The Fried Years

Professors Quarraisha Abdool Karim, MS ’88, PhD, and Salim S. Abdool Karim, MS ’88, MD, PhD, publish a study in the journal Science finding that tenofovir gel is effective in preventing HIV transmission in women. 

The revamped MPH Core Curriculum debuts, providing a rigorous program of interdisciplinary training in public health science and leadership.  

The Center for Injury Science and Prevention, a CDC-funded Injury Control Research Center, is founded.  

Columbia Mailman School and the Columbia Journalism School take responsibility for leading Age Boom Academy, a summer boot camp for journalists on aging issues. 

Sidney and Helaine Lerner establish the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and corresponding endowed professorship in public health promotion.  

The Incarceration and Public Health Action Network is developed to examine mass incarceration through a public health lens and incorporate criminal justice reform into public health education.  

The Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA), offered through the Department of Health Policy and Management, gives students intensive training in leadership and management along with a broad introduction to public health, health policy, and healthcare systems.  

ICAP at Columbia begins providing technical assistance for the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) Project to capture the state of the epidemic in the most affected countries. 

An international roster of experts gathers in Shanghai to address aging in China and around the world at the Columbia-Fudan Global Summit on Aging and Health.  

Fried receives the Inserm International Prize, a scientific award given each year by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, the French equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. 

The School partners with Barnard College to offer a 4+1 program that allows undergraduates to earn an MPH a year after they graduate with a BA. Similar programs follow with other schools.  

David Rosner, PhD, MPH, and Gerald Markowitz, PhD, give testimony in a landmark case in which paint manufacturers are found responsible for lead contamination in California. Toxic Docs, a repository of documents related to toxic exposures, launches. 

Experts from across the School pioneer testing techniques and therapies for COVID-19, conduct modeling to forecast spread, and offer technical assistance worldwide. Faculty and students support community awareness and vaccine programs.  

Students, faculty, and staff create the FORWARD initiative, one in a series of efforts to promote inclusive and equitable education in the field of public health. 

The School hosts the inaugural Data Science for Public Health Summit, convening public health leaders to consider the many dimensions of data science in public health.  

Faculty, with researchers across the University, launch the Columbia Scientific Union for the Reduction of Gun Violence (SURGE). 

As the School celebrates its centennial, Dean Fried leads a visioning exercise to chart a course for the coming decades.  

Dean Fried co-chairs a commission that publishes the National Academy of Medicine Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity.