Scholars at the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, at Columbia diversity focus on the social determinants of population health.

The major themes of research projects at the Department of Epidemiology are:

• examining the role of social conditions as fundamental causes of disease on population health, including socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity and neighborhood characteristics

• eliminating health disparities through a population health approach

• studying disparities in health through the role of life course epidemiology

• improving population health through social policy

Site Director: Luisa N. Borrell, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health; Associate Program Coordinator, Columbia University Health & Society Scholars Program

Other core faculty members associated with the program at the Mailman School of Public Health include:
Bruce Link, Professor, Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences; Co-Director Columbia University Health & Society Scholars Program
Sharon Schwartz, Associate Professor, Epidemiology; Director Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program
Ezra S. Susser, Professor and Chair, Epidemiology
Robert Fullilove, Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences; Associate Dean for Minority Affairs
Kathryn M. Neckerman, Associate Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Sociology; Program Coordinator, Health & Society Scholars Program
Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Professor, Population & Family Health
Mary Northridge, Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences

For more information about the Mailman School of Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology visit: here.