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Apr 5, 2019 | In the Media, News
Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey have hosted large refugee populations, with a high pre-conflict burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In this context, the Center for Research on Population and Health (CRPH) at the...
Apr 4, 2019 | News
More than 60 people gathered at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health on March 27, 2019, to hear from His Excellency Boubacar Kane, Minister of Health of Mauritania, about the challenges and opportunities facing his nation’s health system. Notably,...
Mar 21, 2019 | In the Media, News
ICAP’s Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RRHS) project in Sierra Leone, funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), advances nursing and midwifery through strengthening workforce capacity, improving systems to support human...
Mar 18, 2019 | In the Media, News
Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, ICAP’s Senior Implementation Director, argues that the resurgence of syphilis is actually a sign that it’s a fairly overlooked disease. This, she adds, is particularly frustrating because once it’s identified,...
Mar 12, 2019 | In the Media, News
As a recent medical school graduate of Cairo University, Wafaa El-Sadr arrived in the U.S. in 1976 confident that more training in medicine would help her meet the challenges of curing infectious diseases in poor countries around the world, like her native Egypt....
Mar 8, 2019 | In the Media, News
In this video, Elaine J. Abrams, MD, professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at Columbia University, and clinical vice chair for the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections program committee, provides some insight into the many presentations...