by Jordan Mueller, MPH ’16, Department of Sociomedical Sciences At the Dean’s Grand Rounds on November 12, Dr. Glen Mays, a public health economist from the University of Kentucky and a leading figure in the field of public health policy and financing, didn’t mince words about inefficiencies riddling the American health care delivery system.…
by Erika Eitland, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, MPH 15′ Devastated by civil wars, the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone already struggled to balance on fragile healthcare systems and were not prepared to take on the debilitating consequences of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. We can say that part of…
by Augusta Williams in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, MPH ’15 Walking into a room filled with anxious young professionals in business attire who are wielding resumes and business cards can be an intimidating experience, whether it is your first time attending a Career Day event, or your tenth. I’m actually planning on…
by Loxley Bennett, 2015 ICAP Swaziland HIV/AIDS Research Fellow, Columbia University Neuroscience & Behavior ’15. This post was published in collaboration with ICAP. Going into the summer with ICAP, I expected to learn about global health and the tools used to conduct medical research, but that hardly describes my summer in Swaziland. These experiences…
