Centennial Events

Building a Healthy and Just World Since 1922

The Centennial events focus on the ways we meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, including climate change and food security, equitable health systems, healthy longevity and more. Visit the Centennial web section to browse a timeline of the School’s first century. 

For questions or more information, please contact public_health_events@cumc.columbia.edu. 

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Centennial Gala

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Shaping Public Health for the Next 100 Years

  • Honored and Special Guests
    • Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA
    • Roy Vagelos, MD
    • Anthony S. Fauci, MD (2023 recipient of the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health) 

 

Tribute to Wafaa El-Sadr | Columbia Mailman School Centennial

 

 

The Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health & Lecture

Thursday, April 27, 2023

  • Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Former Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland

Calderone Prize Ceremony & Lecture: Dr. Anthony S. Fauci

World Leaders Forum

Public Health: A Critical Foundation for Successful Societies

September 29, 2021

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Live Podcast Recording: Dean Linda P. Fried on Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

October 12, 2021

  • Speakers:
    • Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
      Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health
      Director of the Robert N Butler Columbia Aging Center
      Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
    • Randy Cohen
      Creator and Host, Person Place Thing
      Emmy Award-Winning Writer
      Former New York Times Columnist

Listen to the Podcast 

Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series

A Conversation about Climate and Food

October 13, 2021

  • Speakers: 
    • Bill McKibben
      Author and founder of 350.org
    • Lewis Ziska, PhD
      Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
      Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
  • Moderator:
    • Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD
      Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Public Health
      Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
      Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

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Yusuf Hamied Distinguished Lecture

A Person-Centered and Compassionate Healthcare System

October 15, 2021

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Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series

An Argument for Healthy Longevity (and Public Health)

November 17, 2021

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A World AIDS Day / Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series Event 

HIV & COVID-19: When Pandemics Collide 

Presented by ICAP at Columbia University and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

December 2, 2021

  • Keynote Address:
    • Kevin De Cock, MD, FRCP (UK), DTM & H 
      Former Director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Former Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Kenya 
  • Moderator:
    • Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA (Moderator) 
      Director of ICAP at Columbia University and Columbia World Projects and
      Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
  • Panelists:
    • Shannon Hader, MD ’95, MPH ’95
      Deputy Executive Director of Programme at UNAIDS and Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations
    • Gregg Gonsalves, PhD 
      Global Health Activist, Associate Professor at Yale School of Public Health and Yale Law School
    • Rejoice Nkambule, MPH
      Deputy Director of Health Services at Ministry of Health Eswatini

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CUIMC Grand Rounds

Longevity Research and the Clinic: The Geroscience Hypothesis

January 26, 2022

For more information on the CUIMC Grand Rounds, please visit: https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/about-us/events/cuimc-grand-rounds. This event is being presented with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in celebration of its centennial. 

Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series

An (un)Holy Union: Causal Inference, Semiparametric Statistics and Machine Learning in the Age of Data Science

February 3, 2022

  • Keynote Speaker:
    • Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD
      Luddy Family President’s Distinguished Professor
      Professor of Statistics and Data Science
      The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Moderator:
    • Kiros Berhane, PhD
      Cynthia and Robert Citron-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor, Biostatistics
      Chair, Biostatistics
      Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
  • Panelists: 

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Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series

Affordable Housing: An Essential for Health Equity

March 2, 2022

  • Speakers: 
    • Jonathan F.P. Rose
      President, Jonathan Rose Companies 
    • Peggy Shepard
      Co-Founder and Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Member, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Board of Advisors
  • Moderator: 
    • Diana Hernández, PhD
      Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences
      Columbia Mailman School of Public Health 

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Centennial Special Event 

COVID-19 and Public Health: Two Years and a Changed Profession

March 22, 2022

Speakers:

  • Anabel Cole, MS, MPH
    Officer of Research & Community Outreach and Research Translation Core (COTC) Project Coordinator
    Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
  • Jessica Justman, MD
    Associate Professor of Medicine in Epidemiology
  • Terry McGovern, JD
    Chair and Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
  • Nischay Mishra, PhD
    Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, Center for Infection and Immunity
  • Michael A. Joseph, PhD, MPH (Moderator)
    Vice Dean, Education, Associate Professor, Epidemiology

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Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series

A Public Health System for the Future

April 6, 2022

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Public Health is a Public Good

April 28, 2022

  • Speaker: 
    • Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH
      Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health
      Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
      Director, The Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center

Presented by Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai

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