VOLUME 2 • ISSUE 2 APRIL 2011
NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2 UPCOMING 3 PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS 5 CONFERENCES Page 15 6 AWARDS & GRANTS International Engagement, 7 IN THE NEWS 8 PROFILES Why Do US Latinos 11 BRIEF MENTIONS 12 GIANTS AMONG US Underuse Mental 24 USEFUL RESOURCES 31 FACULTY ARTICLE Health Services? BIBLIOGRAPHY
Latinos in the US access mental health services at a lower rate than non-Hispanic whites, and a new study led by Dr. Katherine Keyes, Instructor in Epidemiology, indicates that language barriers and stronger cultural ties to Hispanic heritage predict this pattern. Dr. Deborah Hasin, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), was the senior investigator on the study, and Dr. Lisa Bates, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology was a co-investigator. Latinos are the fastest growing minority group in the US, with the expectation they will comprise 20% of the population by 2020. However, disparities between their use of health services and those of non-Latino whites have been on the rise and are only partially explained by differences in fi nancial means and health insurance status. To further understand the causes, the study, which was published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, examined the degree to which markers of immigrant adaptation, such as exclusively The investigators found few differences between subgroups speaking Spanish and stronger ties to ethnic of Latinos (such as Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans) after identity, play a role in Latino experience with controlling for economic and practical barriers, though Mexican mental health services. individuals with a mood/anxiety disorder were less likely to seek Using data from 6,359 Latino participants treatment than Puerto Rican individuals. in the National Epidemiologic Survey on The results suggest that strategies to improve mental health Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC), care should focus on ethnic/cultural factors that are unique to a nationally representative face-to-face Latino immigrants and on the specifi c disorder, even among survey of US residents, the investigators Latinos who speak English. found that greater levels of Latino ethnic “Although increasing the fi nancial acces- identity, use of Spanish language, and Latinos are more likely sibility of mental health service use is a pri- less time living in the US predicted lower ority, programs to improve access to care and usage of mental health services for mood to distrust the medical management of illness should recognize the disorders, even after controlling for factors important role of language, cultural values such as insurance, income, and the severity community and the and beliefs, and more explicitly address ac- of symptoms. cess to care for specifi c psychiatric disorders The authors also note that Latinos are health care system due across diverse populations,” the authors say. more likely to distrust the medical commu- nity and the health care system due to past to past experiences of Keyes KM, Martins SS, Hatzenbuehler ML, Blanco C, Bates experiences of discriminatory treatment or LM, Hasin DS. Mental health service utilization for psychi- ineffective care, and cultural stigmas and discriminatory treatment atric disorders among Latinos living in the United States: attitudes toward psychiatric disorders and the role of ethnic subgroup, ethnic identity, and language/ social preferences. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. mental health services. or ineffective care 2011 Feb 3. [Epub ahead of print]
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Dear colleagues,
Welcome to the April 2011 issue of Two by Two, the Department of Epidemiology newsletter. In this issue, we shine a light on International Engagement among our faculty and students. We include a sampling of international research projects led by Department faculty. We profi le the Epidemiology faculty who make up the core of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP). Also, we feature the Epidemiology students engaged in the school-wide Global Health Track program. Psychiatric epidemiology also fi gures prominently this month, in three ways: our Giants Among Us profi le of Dr. Bruce Dohrenwend’s seminal contributions to the fi eld; the multiple psychiatric epidemiology awards garnered by our faculty; and the arrival of Dr. Karestan Koenen, an alumna of our Psychiatric Epidemiology Training program who joined the faculty in March. In recognition of International Women’s Day in March, we highlight the career of Epidemiology alumna Dr. Roberta Ness, whose work focuses on women’s health. Our thanks to the senior cluster administrators, faculty, and students who provided material for this international issue. And fi nally, my very best wishes to the students who are winding up their spring semester, especially those preparing to graduate in May. Look for a special June issue focused on our award winning students and graduates.
Warm regards,
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PSYCH / nEURO EPIDEMIOLOGY THURSDAY, APRIL 7 12:30-2:00 PM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011 ALAN BERKMAN MEMORIAL LECTURE: GERALD FRIEDLAND, MD THURSDAY, MAY 5 12:30-2:00 PM FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 2011 DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: JERI NIEVES, PhD TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011 SPECIAL LECTURE: ROBERT KAPLAN, PhD LIFECOURSE EPIDEMIOLOGY FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011 FACULTY MEETING TUESDAY, APRIL 12 1:00-2:30 PM TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2011 SPECIAL LECTURE: KARL KELSEY, MD, MOH TUESDAY, MAY 10 1:00-2:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011 CUEGR: ALBERT HOFMAN, MD, PhD EPIDEMIOLOGY InnOVATIOn FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011 DEPARTMENT SEMINAR: MITCHELL ELKIND, MD, MS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 8:30-10:00 AM FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011 FACULTY MEETING WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 8:30-10:00 AM WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011 CUEGR: GRAHAM THORNICROFT, MBBS, PhD CHROnIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY FRIDAY, APRIL 8 12:00-1:00 PM FRIDAY, MAY 13 12:00-1:00 PM
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APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 2 PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS
Drugs play a role in aviation accidents, study fi nds
Aviation employees who test positive for illicit drugs are almost three times as likely to be involved in an accident as those who test negative, according to a new study by faculty and students of the Department of Epidemi- ology. “We wanted to see whether drug violations by employees are associated with their risk of being in an aviation accident,” Dr. Guohua Li, Professor of Epidemi- ology, says. “Our case-control analysis of nearly 5,000 employees who were involved in aviation accidents and over one million employees who were not indicates that the answer is a very clear yes.” The investigators found that 1.8% of the employees involved in accidents tested positive for drugs (marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, or phencyclidine) compared with 0.6% of their randomly selected counterparts. Aviation employees with safety-sensitive functions are subject to mandatory random drug testing as well as post-accident testing. This study is part of an ongoing NIH-funded project aimed at assessing the effectiveness of mandatory alcohol and drug testing programs in reducing occupational accidents and injuries. Coauthors include Dr. Charles DiMaggio, Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology; Dr. Qi Zhao, an MPH student; and Ms. Joanne Brady, a PhD student.
Li G, Baker SP, Zhao Q, Brady JE, Lang BH, Rebok GW, DiMaggio C. Drug Violations and Aviation Accidents: Findings from the U.S. Mandatory Drug Testing Programs. Addiction. 2011 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print]
In 2008, Dr. William Friedewald, Vice Chair (NEJM), fi nds that despite having switched Aggressive of the Department of Epidemiology and to the standard therapy approach, the partic- Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical ipants still have as high a rate of mortality as diabetes Biostatistics, and Clinical Medicine, and his they did before. In order to fi nd out whether co-investigators in the Action to Control the rate of mortality decreases the longer treatment Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) patients are off the intensive therapy, the study reported the surprising fi nding that an ACCORD group will continue to monitor the associated with intensive blood sugar lowering strategy that participants for the next 4 years. Because was hoped to reduce the risk of cardiovas- of the clinical and scientifi c importance of risk of death cular disease (CVD) for people with type 2 the fi ndings from this large complex clinical diabetes actually posed an increased risk of trial, 3 related papers have been published death for participants, compared to a control in the NEJM over the last 9 months. group on a standard therapy approach. After the investigators learned of those results, ACCORD Study Group, Gerstein HC, Miller ME, Genuth S, they ceased the intensive therapy strategy. Ismail-Beigi F, Buse JB, Goff DC Jr, Probstfi eld JL, Cushman The most recent ACCORD publication, senior WC, Ginsberg HN, Bigger JT, Grimm RH Jr, Byington RP, Rosenberg YD, Friedewald WT. Long-term effects of intensive authored by Dr. Friedewald and published glucose lowering on cardiovascular outcomes. N Engl J Med. in the New England Journal of Medicine 2011;364(9): 818-28.
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 3 Measuring and monitoring health care Toward a workers’ compliance with hand hygiene rules has become one of the primary strategies for standard for eliminating infections acquired at hospitals, but there is not yet a consensus around one hand hygiene particular method to assess compliance. In order to come up with a good measure, compliance Dr. Elaine Larson, Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutic Research (in Nursing) & Epidemiology, and co-investigators recorded the number of “hand hygiene opportunities,” or HHOs, (for example, right before touching a patient) that health care workers in large teaching hospitals and small community hospitals come across every day, using standards set by the World Health Organization. The study suggests that quantifying HHOs for different types of hospitals BASIC HAND WASHING TECHNIQUES ARE EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING THE TRANSMISSION OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS and hospital units can be used as a benchmark to measure health care workers’ compliance with these standards.
Steed C, Kelly JW, Blackhurst D, Boeker S, Diller T, Alper P, Larson E. Hospital hand hygiene opportunities: Where and when (HOW2)? The HOW2 Benchmark Study. Am J Infect Control. 2011; 39(1):19-26.
Study supports banning smoking in public
A new study senior authored by Dr. Paolo Vineis, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and the Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College London, provides increased support for laws that ban smoking in public, showing a link between second-hand smoke and tobacco in the bloodstream. Several countries are currently considering new legislation regarding smoking bans. The researchers measured the cotinine levels—a biomarker that indicates exposure to tobacco smoke—in the cohort for the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. The EPIC study is a large-scale investigation into cancer and nutrition, in which several other fi ndings about second-hand smoke exposure have been made, including evidence that it increases the risk for cardiovascular death.
Baltar VT, Xun WW, Chuang SC, Relton CL, Ueland PM, Vollset SE, Midttun O, Johansson M, Slimani N, Jenab M, Clavel- Chapelon F, Boutron-Ruaul MC, Fagherazzi G, Kaaks R, Rohrmann S, Boeing H, Weikert C, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Boshuizen HC, van Gils CH, Peeters PH, Agudo A, Barricarte A, Navarro C, Rodriguez L, Castano JM, Larranaga N, Sanchez MJ, Khaw KT, Wareham NJ, Allen NE, Crowe FL, Gallo V, Norat T, Tagliabue G, Masala G, Panico S, Sacerdote C, Tumino R, Trichopoulou A, Lagiou P, Bamia C, Rasmuson T, Hallmans G, Roswall N, Tjonneland AM, Riboli E, Brennan P, Vineis P. Smoking, second-hand smoke and cotinine levels in a subset of EPIC cohort. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IMAGES: TOP COURTESY NIAID / RML. BOTTOM BY KAUSTAV BHATTACHARYA 4 COnFEREnCES
CR I 2O11 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Faculty and students Faculty present at present at ASPO CROI conferencePocket Program The American Society for Preventive Oncology (ASPO) held its Drs. Moïse Desvarieux and Louise Kuhn gave annual meeting March 5-8 in Las Vegas. It was the 35th anniversary presentations at the Conference on Retrovi- of ASPO, and research by our own predoctoral, postdoctoral, and ruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) which faculty at Mailman was extensively featured. Dr. Parisa Tehranifar’s was held in Boston from February 27-March 2. work was selected for the “Best of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers Dr. Kuhn presented fi nal results from NEVER- and Prevention” session featuring the top articles of the past year EST, a large randomized study that compared impacting the fi eld. Specifi cally, her work, published with Drs. Mary switching from nevirapine-based anti-retroviral Beth Terry, Al Neugut, and Bruce Link, focuses on the increasing therapy (ART) to lopinavir-based ART in infants racial disparities seen for cancers that are more amenable to treat- under age 2. Dr. Desvarieux presented the ment/prevention. Dr. Neugut spoke on the controversy surrounding results of a study that found HIV infection and the use of sigmoidoscopy versus colonoscopy. not anti-retroviral drugs (ARV) is associated Oral presentations were given by Dr. Jeanine Genkinger on with thicker carotid atherosclerosis, a degen- pancreatic cancer, Dr. Grace Hillyer on colon cancer screening in erative disease of the arteries. Latinas, Dr. Hui Chen Wu on global methylation and breast cancer, doctoral student Meghan Work on histological differences in breast cancer risk factors, doctoral student Jennifer Ferris on parental age and ovarian cancer, and research associate Julie Flom on prenatal smoke exposure and DNA methylation. Poster presentations were given by Dr. Lissette Delgado-Cruzata on DNA methylation, research associate Ann Cloud on BRCA1 methylation, doctoral student Catherine Richards on colonoscopy screening, and doctoral student Laura Rimers on uptake of selective estrogen receptor modulators. Dr. Judith Jacobson conducted the New Investigator Workshop for fellows from around the country. Meghan Work was selected into this prestigious program. Dr. Terry was program chair for the meeting and developed the program over the past 12 months with colleagues at MD Anderson and other cancer centers. “Mary Beth gave us a lot of outstanding exposure nationally, and the performance of the trainees and junior faculty was really impressive,” says Dr. Neugut.
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 5 AWARDS & GRAnTS
Dr. Mary Beth Terry, Associate Dr. Ezra Susser, Professor of Dr. Magdalena Cerdá, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Psychiatry, was Professor of Epidemiology, won received an R01 from the National awarded the American Public the American Psychopathological Cancer Institute entitled Lessons Health Association’s 2011 Rema Association’s 11th Annual Robins/ in Epidemiology and Genetics of Lapouse Award for outstanding Guze Award for promising research Adult Cancer from Youth (LEGACY), contributions to the scientifi c being conducted in psychiatric effective 1/10/11 – 12/31/15. The understanding of the epidemiology epidemiology by a junior investigator. study will examine the interaction and control of mental disorders. Dr. Cerdá joins newly recruited of genetic and environmental risk He joins former Lapouse recipi- faculty member Dr. Karestan factors in the development of breast ents from the Mailman School Drs. Koenen as a recipient of the Robins/ cancer. It will be based in a cohort of Mervyn Susser, Bruce Dohrenwend, Guze Award. 450 girls age 6-13 who are daughters Myrna Weissman, and Bruce Link. of women enrolled in the Breast Dr. Susser will give a talk at APHA Cancer Family Registry and 450 in October and receive the award. girls from families without breast cancer, all of whom will be followed at 6 month intervals. LEGACY will provide a rich resource for molecular and biomarker studies in young girls which will inform our understanding of when breast cancer susceptibility begins, whether it is infl uenced by modifi able determinants, and how it affects psychosocial adjustment and behaviors.
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APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 6 IN THE NEWS NEW RELEASES Two fellows publish book Dr. Elkind’s diet soda Dr. Susser on the historic on causal study on CBS cohort study in Nature thinking
Dr. Mitchell Elkind was featured in a CBS Dr. Ezra Susser was quoted in the March 1 Causality and Psychopathology: Finding New York report on his recent study that issue of Nature, in a feature about the 65th the Determinants of Disorders and their found drinking diet soda may be associated birthdays of the 16,695 men and women who Cures (Oxford Press), an edited volume with an increased risk of strokes, heart are part of the 1946 birth cohort study, the by Katherine Keyes, PhD, Instructor in attacks, and other causes of death related longest-running cohort study in the world. Epidemiology and Epidemiology Merit to vascular disease. Still unclear is whether Dr. Susser, who has conducted research Fellow, and Katherine Ornstein, MPH, there is a chemical in diet sodas that causes on this cohort for many years, had this to pre-doctoral fellow in the Psychiatric vascular diseases or whether people who say: “It’s unique and groundbreaking in the Epidemiology Training Program, was drink diet sodas are more likely to engage history of epidemiology. It’s the only study to published this past December. in other behaviors that lead to bad health. have chased an entire cohort across its life The book explores one of the chief “It could be due to the fact that people who course—and it’s not yet fi nished. You gain challenges of psychiatric epidemiol- drink diet beverages may not realize how enormous depth of understanding in how [a] ogy: causality, much they’re eating of other foods, because disease came to be by following someone that is, drawing they don’t get the fullness or sense of over their life course.” a conclusion satiety that they get from consuming sugar about the cause beverages,” Dr. Elkind said. of a disease from statistics and empirical research. Estab- lishing causality is not merely an Dr. Vineis in Nature Dr. Lipkin in The New Yorker intellectual exer- cise: it infl uences Dr. Paolo Vineis was featured in the Dr. W. Ian Lipkin’s work was cited in the how society understands mental February 16 issue of Nature, in an article January 31 issue of The New Yorker magazine disorders and how they are dealt with about new ways of measuring individuals’ in the article “Going Viral: The Pentagon in various contexts. exposure to the environment that try to get takes on a new enemy: swine fl u.” The article The book’s contributions are beyond the diffi culties and uncertainties describes Dr. Lipkin’s quick turnaround for refi ned versions of presentations of self-reporting. According to the article, sequencing the pandemic strain of infl uenza from the ground-breaking 2008 “Vineis [and psychologist Tom Baranowski] in 2009: “Lipkin’s staff sent…the swine-fl u meeting of the American Psycho- are at the forefront of a movement among sequence when it was fi nished. It looked pathological Association on approaches health researchers to develop measure- like a piece of fi ne embroidery—tiny dots of to improving the methodical rigor ments of environmental exposures that are green, blue, yellow, red, and purple. Lipkin of establishing causality. more precise and objective than question- had sequenced the virus in thirty-one hours.” “This volume examines the com- naires.” Some of these measures involve plicated issues in causal inference blood-based tests, while others require from many perspectives providing subjects to wear sensors that capture their researchers with a valuable resource movement and take pictures of such things to engage in their work in psychopa- as their lunch, or samples of the air they thology as well as other fi elds,” Dr. breathe. According to the article, “A com- Keyes and Ms. Ornstein say. prehensive exposome is many years off— “Causality and Psychopathology is so for now, Vineis is just hoping for a better an incomparable and fundamental way to measure one exposure at a time.” book for any social scientist that is As he says in the article, “I don’t think seriously considering addressing we’ll completely give up on questionnaires.” causal issues in psychopathology research,” says Dr. Margarita Alegria, the Director of the Center for Multi- cultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School.
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 7 FACULTY PROFILE JEREMIAH BARONDESS
Jeremiah Barondess, MD, one of the most distinguished clinicians and scholars of our time, has joined the Mailman School as a member of the faculty of Epidemiology and Special Advisor to the Dean.
r. Barondess has long been an inter- and public health. He has served, among national leader in chronic disease others, as President of the American College prevention, urban health, and in shaping of Physicians, of the American Clinical and Dpedagogy at the intersection of public Climatological Association, and the American health and medicine. He is renowned for reviving Osler Society. He has been a member of the the New York Academy of Medicine and turning Institute of Medicine since 1971. FACULTY around New York City’s municipal hospitals after At the Mailman School, Dr. Barondess APPOINTMENTS years of bureaucratic and fi nancial problems in will continue to work closely with Dr. Moïse the 1980s and 1990s. Desvarieux and members of the Mailman AND PROMOTIONS Dr. Barondess did his medical training at the School’s Chronic Disease Initiative to shape Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine the school’s agenda around chronic disease Dr. Jeremiah Barondess was and carried out clinical training at Johns prevention. He will also work with the Curricu- appointed as Special Lecturer in Hopkins and at New York Hospital/Cornell lum Renewal Task Force on developing chronic Epidemiology Medical Center. After that, he became part of disease educational opportunities for Mailman the fi rst cohort of the CDC’s Epidemic Intel- students and building opportunities for inter- Dr. Karestan Koenen was recruited ligence Service offi cers, under the direction of professional education spanning the Mailman at the level of Associate Professor of Dr. Alexander Langmuir. School and the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Epidemiology He spent most of his career at Cornell where and Dentistry. he served as the William T. Foley Distinguished Dr. Maureen Miller was promoted Professor in Clinical Medicine and the Direc- to Adjunct Associate Professor of tor of General Internal Medicine. In 1990 he Epidemiology became the President of the New York Academy of Medicine, which, during his 16-year tenure, Dr. Athanasios Zavras was appointed he transformed into an intensive urban health- as Associate Professor of Dental focused research institution with more than 200 Medicine and Epidemiology full-time staff. During that period, the Academy inaugurated the Journal of Urban Health, the fi rst peer-reviewed journal focused on urban health issues, and became a leader in shaping the national and international conversation around urban health. Dr. Barondess has been suitably decorated for his long and distinguished service to medicine
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 8 ALUMnA PROFILE ROBERTA B. NESS | ‘89
Trained in epidemiology and internal medicine, Roberta B. Ness, MD, MPH, is an expert in women’s health research and the current Dean of University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH). Dr. Ness, who earned her MPH here, has been at the forefront of research that recognizes the unique health issues of women.
r. Ness was one of the fi rst to propose University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of a research paradigm that connects Public Health in 1993, where she eventu- women’s health problems with their ally became the chair of the Department of gender—now known as “gender-based Epidemiology and later the interim dean. While D Health and Disease biology”—in her book there, Dr. Ness also directed the Epidemiology among Women: Biological and Environmental of Women’s Health Program, which focused on Influences (Oxford University Press, 1999). promoting the health and well-being of women The book explores health questions such as through teaching and research in epidemiology. why depression is more common in women Dr. Ness assumed her current position at the than in men and evidence that links cardio- University of Texas in 2008. vascular disease with hormones. Dr. Ness has Dr. Ness also served as president of the also authored nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers American College of Epidemiology in 2009. on topics including the epidemiology of ovarian Dr. Ness is a frequent advisor to the National cancer, preeclampsia, and pelvic infl ammatory Institutes for Health, the Centers for Disease disease; adverse pregnancy and perinatal out- Control and Prevention, the Agency for Health- comes; links between reproductive history and care Research and Quality, and the Depart- cardiovascular disease; and bacterial sexually ment of Defense. She has taken part in several transmitted infections. reports published by the Institute of Medicine of She currently leads UTSPH’s Center for the National Academies of Science. Innovation Generation, which aims to get researchers to identify cognitive biases that limit creative thinking. Her book Innovation Generation, about creating successful ideas by breaking formulaic thought patterns, will be coming out in 2012 from Oxford University Press. Dr. Ness recently received funding on a large training grant geared toward developing highly innovative scientists. Dr. Ness taught at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 9 STUDEnT/STAFF PROFILE JENNIFER FERRIS
Jennifer Ferris, MPH, is a PhD candidate in the Department who researches risk factors for ovarian cancer with Dr. Mary Beth Terry. Jennifer earned a degree in neuroscience as an undergraduate at Franklin and Marshall College, where she examined the effects of Ritalin in adolescent rats.
rom that experience, she learned that program at Columbia as a Cancer Fellow. she enjoyed doing research with other Today, Jennifer’s work with Dr. Terry focuses people and soon discovered the fi eld of on risk factors for ovarian cancer in families, Fepidemiology. She went on to earn her using the unique resource of the Breast Cancer STAFF MPH from Yale University. Family Registry. Using a lifecourse approach, APPOINTMENTS While in school, she participated in a they are also examining associations between student-run public health outreach program, exposures early in life and risk of ovarian AND PROMOTIONS where she worked with a small community cancer in the offspring, which Jennifer will be in El Salvador to identify their major health presenting at the American Society of Preventive Melissa DuPont was appointed concerns and to reduce their burden of disease Oncology conference this year. Project Coordinator for the Columbia through such initiatives as the development of When she is not working on campus, Center for Youth Violence Prevention a sustainable clean water system. Jennifer enjoys running throughout the city With a desire to pursue a career in can- with organizations such as the New York Road Claire Espey was promoted to cer research, she completed her summer Runners and Team in Training for the Leukemia Project Coordinator for the Center practicum with Dr. Terry and after graduation and Lymphoma Society. for the Study of Social Inequalities returned to Columbia to continue working with and Health her. Jennifer has presented their research at both national and international conferences, Laura Goldenkranz was appointed as including Society for Epidemiologic Research Administrative Assistant in the Offi ce and the International Society for Developmental of the Department Chair Origins of Health and Disease. After a few years in research she decided to apply to the PhD
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 10 BRIEF MEnTIOnS
Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez nominated by Dr. Renee Goodwin’s baby George Loo successfully defends dissertation White House for USAID post Zachary Giraud Goodwin Chester was Dr. George Loo successfully defended his dis- Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Professor of born in the morning of January 28, 2011, sertation “The Mental Health Consequences Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology, has to Dr. Renee Goodwin, and her husband of Disaster Exposure among Federal Disaster been nominated by President Barack Chris Chester. Zachary weighed 7 lbs 12 Responders” on March 7. His adviser and Obama to serve as Assistant Administrator oz. His older brother Alexander seems very sponsor was Dr. Charles DiMaggio. for Global Health at the US Agency for happy with his new younger brother. Con- International Development (USAID). In gratulations to Dr. Goodwin and her family! addition to his position here, Dr. Pablos- Méndez is currently Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation. He earned his MPH from the Mailman School in 1992.
Dr. Karestan Koenen joins faculty First Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture Doctoral students and faculty judge high school epi competition Dr. Karestan Koenen, an alumna of the The fi rst annual Alan Berkman Memorial Psychiatric Epidemiology Training (PET) Lecture will be given on April 6 by Dr. Gerald Doctoral students Catherine Richards and program, returned to the Department as a Friedland on the subject “A Journey Bevin Cohen and Instructor in Epidemiology faculty member on March 14. Her research, Through Three Epidemics: HIV, TB, and Dr. Katherine Keyes will participate as judges which focuses on how genetics and environ- XDRTB.” Dr. Friedland is an Adjunct Professor in the College Board’s Young Epidemiology ment mediate the role of trauma in psycho- of Epidemiology at the Mailman School; Scholars Program (YES), in Washington, D.C. pathology, is directly relevant to research a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, from April 15-18. YES is a nationwide scholar- underway here. She will play a primary role and Public Health at Yale University; and ship competition for high school students who in the life of the psychiatric/neuro epidemi- Director of the AIDS Program at Yale New are judged on original epidemiology research ology cluster and the PET program. Haven Hospital. The lecture takes place papers that propose solutions to population from 4-5:30 in the 8th Floor Auditorium, 722 health problems. West 168th Street. Reception to follow.
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 11 GIANTS AMONG US
Bruce Dohrenwend, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and Professor of Social Science in the Department of Psychiatry, is one of the early post World-War II practitioners of psychiatric epidemiology and has, for over 50 years, helped to shape knowledge of psychiatric disorders and their relationship with race, ethnicity, and class. Dr. Dohrenwend has brought thoroughness and precision to the study of the often hard to defi ne relationship between psychiatric disorders and their social causes. BRUCE DOHREnWEnD is most signifi cant research contributions have helped his peers a psychiatrist and anthropologist, which looked at the and the public understand the mental toll taken on veterans of prevalence of psychiatric “caseness” and impairment in the Vietnam War and on workers and residents who were present Stirling County—a fi shing, farming, and lumbering area of Hat the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown in the 1970s. Nova Scotia, Canada—in order to understand how disor- He has helped put psychiatric epidemiology on the map with the Psychiatric ders were distributed in different types of organized and Epidemiology Training (PET), which over the years has ensured that the study disorganized communities. of mental health thrives in the Department of Epidemiology and attracts In the decades after he joined Columbia, he and his scholars from many disciplines. wife, the late Dr. Barbara Snell Dohrenwend, established themselves in this area. They wrote and edited four books Studying stressful life events together: Social Status and Psychological Disorder (1969), Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects (1974), Dr. Dohrenwend earned a PhD in psychology from Cornell University in Stressful Life Events and Their Contexts (1981), and Mental 1955 and became interested in abnormal psychology because of the nature Illness in the United States: Epidemiological Estimates of the, “vivid, challenging behaviors” that encompass “a rich panoply of (1980). These works explored epidemiological fi ndings human problems.” about the relationship between psychiatric disorders This was an era when many large-scale studies were being conducted and stress related to social factors like gender, race, and that examined the links between socio-economic status and mental health. socioeconomic status. After graduating, he joined one such study, run by Dr. Alexander Leighton, Through these works, Dr. Dohrenwend brought a
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT PHOTO BY HELENE KRENISKE 12 complex understanding of the interplay of life events in more infl uenced by social causation or social selection infl uencing psychiatric disorders, applying a rigor that factors depended on the type of disorder. Schizophrenia, had sometimes been lacking in the world of social for instance, was linked to social selection; while depres- psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. sion in women and substance use disorders in men were According to Dr. Myrna Weissman, he “took it to another infl uenced by social causes. level, looking at the impact of the event, whether it was The paper won the prestigious American Association in your control, not in your control, and also developing for Advancement of Science (AAAS) prize for Behavioral assessment scales.” Science Research in 1991. “Simply put, ‘getting it right’ is hard work,” says Dr. Bruce Link. “A large part of the reason that Bruce stands Mental health outcomes of Three Mile Island as a giant among us is because his own research refl ects and the Vietnam War his commitment to getting it right.” Dr. Dohrenwend brought his knowledge of life stressors The PET program and the causation question to mental health inquiries into two of the most diffi cult events of the 1970s, the Three Mile Island disaster and In 1972, Dr. Dohrenwend established PET with a the Vietnam War. National Institute of Mental Health grant, in order to In 1979, Dr. Dohrenwend was appointed as the head of train scholars from different disciplines in psychiatric President Jimmy Carter’s task group to investigate the epidemiology. The program became an incubator for behavioral effects of Three Mile Island. After conducting cross-disciplinary collaboration and brought many studies of the event’s impact on the stress levels of resi- psychologists to the University. dents in Middletown, Pennsylvania, he strongly cautioned It also brought many generations of scientists under the mentorship of Dr. Dohrenwend. DR. DOHRENWEND’S “I always give PET credit for teaching me how to think. The program puts a unique TEAM FOUND LITTLE intellectual stamp on its train- ees that remains even when EVIDENCE THAT they go into research areas that seem quite disparate,” says Dr. Karestan Koenen, one VETERANS FALSELY of Dr. Dohrenwend’s mentees in the program. REPORTED PTSD. Beginning in the 1980s, the VIETnAM, 1967 study of psychiatric disorders THOSE RESULTS DR. DORHENWEND’S had been changing signifi - STUDY FOUND cantly, as the study of 18.7% OF VIETNAM genetic causes for mental “MADE EVEN THE VETERANS health problems began to SUFFERED PTSD overtake the study of societal CRITICS SIT UP AND causes. It was the sort of turn in the fi eld that might cause some academics to guard TAKE NOTICE.” their turf defensively. But Dr. Dohrenwend took head-on both explanations for psychiatric disorders in a authorities not to ignore the safety concerns of workers at study about the classic conundrum known as the “causa- the nuclear reactor site. tion-selection issue”—whether “the inverse relationship “[This] is a classic issue in high magnifi cation here: between psychiatric disorders and socioeconomic status Two sets of values, each of them unimpeachable in is due more to social causation (adversity and stress) or itself, each of them fi ne in itself but for the fact that they social selection confl ict with each other. One is the value of technological (the downward mobility of the genetically predisposed).” progress in our society. The other is the value of public Published in Science in 1992, the study compared health and safety. They have met on what appears to psychiatric disorders in nearly 5,000 Israelis, about be a near collision course around the issue of Three Mile half of European background, who typically occupied Island,” he said at a New York Academy of Medicine a higher socio-economic status, and half of North symposium in 1983. African background, who usually occupied a lower In the early 1980s, Dr. Dohrenwend was appointed to socio-economic status. the Scientifi c Advisory Board of the Veteran’s Administra- The fi ndings suggested that whether a person was tion’s National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IMAGE: DOD 13 “Everyone will concur that Bruce Dohrenwend is one of those giants—we just all know it. And we also “His work has taken socially oriented researchers to know that this is true across multiple dimensions of task for relying on intuition rather than empiricism. At scholarship, leadership and personal integrity in the the same time, he has kept social factors in the forefront conduct of research. But for me the dimensions are of psychiatric epidemiology when psychiatry in general expressions of a central essence—a kind of latent has moved largely biological.” variable—that consistently produces things we can admire. The essence is a deep, really deep commitment to meaningful research.” Dr. Karestan Koenen
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“PET seminars never feel quite right on the rare occasions when Bruce D.—as he is known in the PET community—is not sitting at the head of the table around which we gather “Dr. Dohrenwend’s insights in psychiatric epidemiology each week. His presence reminds us of the standards he have probably motivated more new research than those has set for the PET community by his example—to strive of anyone else in the field over the past four decades.” for excellence, to attend to the logic of our theories, the veracity of our data and the rigor of our interpretations.”
Dr. Sandro Galea Dr. Sharon Schwartz
(NVVRS), which was investigating rates of posttraumatic stress racial/ethnic and SES differences. He is also working on a measure disorder (PTSD) in the military. PTSD had recently been recognized of life events that can account for the complexity of various stressors as a legitimate diagnosis, and it became important to have a reliable and their impact on people. estimate of the number of veterans who suffered from the disorder. And his legacy already lives on in the work of others. Early results were not conclusive. NVVRS’ report to Congress in “Personally, Bruce has been more than a mentor to me,” says 1988, which found 30.9% of veterans had suffered full-blown PTSD Dr. Koenen. “He is a role model, colleague and dear friend. As a in their lifetimes, clashed with the fi ndings of a study reported the mentor, his clarity and rigor continually challenged me to clarify my same year by the Centers for Disease Control which found only own thinking and improve my work. As a role model, he is the most 14.7% had PTSD. When methodological fl aws were discovered in the ethical scientist I know. He is truly driven by the work—not by fame, CDC study, the NVVRS results became accepted, though they still or numbers of papers, or recognition. He is not afraid to be unpopu- struggled to gain legitimacy because of questions about how over lar—he is courageous. As a colleague and friend, he has promoted 30% of veterans in the sample could have experienced PTSD when and supported me personally—even when he disagreed with me.” only 15% had served in combat roles. Such concerns prompted Dr. Dohrenwend to reanalyze the NV- REFEREnCES VRS data and put together a more rigorous measure of PTSD and war-zone stress exposure in Vietnam veterans. He required that Dohrenwend BP. Psychological implications of nuclear accidents: the case of Three Mile the disorder had to have arisen from trauma during one’s service in Island. Bull NY Acad Med. 1983; 59(10): 1060–1076. Vietnam, not before or after. He also made use of a new diagnostic criterion of impairment of functioning, and he made sure to account Dohrenwend BP, Levav I, Shrout PE, Schwartz S, Naveh G, Link BG, Skodol AE, Stueve A. for the untraditional nature of combat exposure in a war that was Socioeconomic status and psychiatric disorders: the causation-selection issue. Science. 1992;255(5047):946-52. considered frontless. To corroborate veterans’ reports of exposure to war-zone stressors, the team examined data from military per- Dohrenwend BP. A psychosocial perspective on the past and future of psychiatric sonnel fi les and worked with Dr. Nick Turse, an historian, to gather epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol. 1998;147(3):222-31. data from military archival sources and historical accounts. The group concluded that 18.7% of veterans had suffered from Dohrenwend BP, Turner JB, Turse NA, Adams BG, Koenen KC, Marshall R. The impairing, war-related PTSD, a lower rate than the original NVVRS psychological risks of Vietnam for U.S. veterans: a revisit with new data and methods. study, but serious nonetheless. Signifi cantly, Dr. Dohrenwend’s team Science. 2006;313(5789):979-82. found little evidence that veterans falsely reported PTSD. Those results “made even the critics sit up and take notice,” he says. David Dobbs. The Costs of War: A Study Reignites the Debate Over Soldiers’ Trauma. The study was greeted with much less skepticism than the prior Scientifi c American. Jan 30, 2007 [Epub]. two, owing in no small part to these rigorous methods. This and other accolades have not slowed Dr. Dohrenwend, who continues to investigate PTSD especially as it is related to
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1 Dr. Lisa M. Bates — BANGLADESH Dr. Lisa M. Bates is beginning fi eldwork for a new R01 HD061630-01A1 cohort study, “Infl uences of Women’s Empowerment on Marriage and Violence in Bangladesh.” In TWELVE recent years Bangladesh has experienced dramatic changes in sources of women’s empowerment, especially in girls’ educa- EXAMPLES OF tion, resulting in impressive achievements in gender parity in enrollment and attain- ment. However, evidence suggests these FACULTY’S GLOBAL dramatic changes may produce unintended consequences in marriage markets and dynamics within marriage. The objective of EnGAGEMEnT this study is to clarify the individual- and community-level mechanisms by which a woman’s empowerment is associated with her risk of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Bangladesh.
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2 Dr. Magdalena Cerdá — COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL 4 Dr. Moïse Desvarieux — FRANCE 8 Drs. Al neugut and Judith Jacobson — SOUTH AFRICA Dr. Magdalena Cerdá studies violence, drug Dr. Moïse Desvarieux is leading the Depart- use, and psychiatric disorders in Latin ment of Epidemiology’s partnership with the Drs. Al Neugut and Judith Jacobson run the America, examining how they can be infl u- Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique Columbia-South Africa Training Program on enced by external factors, such as exposure (EHESP) in order to facilitate exchange HIV-Associated Malignancies. The program to traumatic events, or the public services between faculty and students and promote focuses on strengthening research into three and infrastructure of a neighborhood. Her collaboration and synergies in public health malignant cancers that have been associated current research in Medellín, Colombia, education, research, and practice. The with HIV cases in South Africa: Kaposi sarco- focuses on the effect that neighborhood group is working on several topics, including ma (KS), non- Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and infrastructure investment—motivated by the interpretation of cohort studies, how to cervical cancer. The goal of the program is to the construction of an urban cable car system promote vaccine acceptance, and creating train a rising generation of scientists to deal connecting the urban periphery to the city a global database of climate and health with the growing burden that these cancers center—has on violence and substance information, as they relate to chronic disease. are posing on the public health infrastructure use. She is also investigating the role that The Department began this collaboration in South Africa. It partners with institutions paramilitary groups play in shaping social in 2010 and will continue with meetings and in South Africa, including the University of control and violence in Medellín. Building conferences in the upcoming year. KwaZuluNatal and is funded by a D043 grant on this work, she is developing a proposal from the National Cancer Institute. to investigate the relationship between 5 Dr. Megan Hall — BANGLADESH demobilization from illegal armed groups, 9 Dr. Joyce Pressley — TANZANIA family violence, and child mental health. Dr. Megan Hall is working in Bangladesh Dr. Cerdá is also working with the University on a K99/00 training and research grant Dr. Joyce Pressley is the co-Principal Inves- of São Paulo in Brazil to investigate the studying the chemical effects of arsenic in tigator of a study that analyzes pedestrian determinants of the homicide drop in the the population’s drinking water. Specifi cally, safety in school children in Dar es Salaam, city of São Paulo, and to carry out research she is investigating the effect of including Tanzania. Pedestrian injury is high in low on neighborhood infl uences and mental nutritional supplements on the methylation income countries, particularly among school health among older adults. of arsenic. Her mentors are Drs. Al Neugut, aged children. Ten schools were selected that Habib Ahsan, and Mary Gamble, Professor are reported to have high pedestrian traffi c in- of Environmental Health Sciences at Mailman. jury among their students. Census style door- 3 Dr. Leslie Davidson — SOUTH AFRICA to-door interviews will be conducted with Dr. Leslie Davidson leads the ASENZE study, 6 Dr. Bruce Link — UNITED KINGDOM all houses within a radius of the 10 schools a collaboration between Columbia and the serving a total of 10 communities, 5 randomly University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) that Dr. Bruce Link is working with an interdis- assigned to be controls and 5 intervention. seeks to promote better physical and psy- ciplinary team on a project called “A US-UK Planned interventions include assessment of chosocial functioning of children in South Comparison of Discrimination & Disparities risks near the schools, engineering changes, Africa. The primary aim of the study is to in Health & Health Service Use.” A growing and child and family education. determine how the ability of preschool chil- body of evidence in the US and UK docu- dren with neuro-developmental disorders to ments large health disparities by race and 10 Drs. Ezra Susser and Sandro Galea function cognitively and socially is infl u- socioeconomic status (SES). The project — ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, CHILE enced by health-related, contextual, and brings together an interdisciplinary team psychosocial factors, including caregiver of US and UK investigators with established The Global Mental Health Program is sup- mental health and substance abuse. The ties and common objectives to create porting the development of a “regional net- study team, which also includes Depart- comparable data in both countries that will work” in Latin America for building research ment members Drs. Stephen Arpadi and permit a better understanding of health dis- capacity, improving mental health services, Zena Stein and doctoral candidate Victoria parities, how they are infl uenced by social and supporting one another’s efforts. GMHP Nankabirwa, is currently following-up the structures, and how they might be reduced. co-Directors Drs. Ezra Susser and Sandro population-based sample of almost 1,600 Galea already have longstanding relationships children as they enter school. So far, they 7 Dr. Denis nash — TANZANIA with the network sites, as illustrated in a have gotten an excellent response rate. piece from September by La Nacion, Argen- Dr. Denis Nash is focused on retention Dr. Davidson is also a co-investigator in an tina’s leading newspaper. “Eighteen years of and engagement of patients in the Kagera NIH-funded study following the neurodevel- joint work and friendship and the deep hope region of Tanzania prior to antiretroviral opment of children of mothers, treated in a that the worst situations can improve with the therapy (ART) initiation. He also investigates randomized trial for anemia in pregnancy in intervention of people, even those who seem multi-level determinants of late ART initia- Benin, West Africa. weaker or more vulnerable. This is what tion in sub-Saharan Africa. Lastly, Dr. Nash joins Ezra Susser and [his partner in South is involved in an initiative called International America] José Lumerman... Susser and Epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS Lumerman agree that mental patients do (IEDEA) in the eastern Africa region. IEDEA not have to be interned in institutions for life, is a multi-partner, multi-center project that but contained when in crisis and offer them combines data on cohorts of patients receiv- a resocialization network afterwards.” ing HIV care and treatment. GMHP is also developing programs in other countries around the world.
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11 Dr. Lawrence Yang — CHINA Dr. Lawrence Yang researches schizophre- nia in Chinese populations. Dr. Yang, in tandem with Drs. Ezra Susser and Michael Phillips, will examine a subtype of schizo- phrenia called defi cit syndrome, among the only untreated, nationally representative sample of 400 schizophrenia patients in China. The project is part of the Depart- ment’s Global Mental Health Program and is based on a groundbreaking study of Dr. Phillips that was published in The Lancet in 2009. Dr. Yang is also initiating two other mental health projects: an anti-stigma intervention for families of fi rst episode schizophrenia, and an examination of how defi cits in auditory processing ability (which affect tonal perception, an ability critical to Chinese language comprehension) affects FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI AT A CU-SOUTH AFRICA FOGARTY REUNION schizophrenia course.
12 nIH Fogarty AIDS International Systems at the University of Cape Town Training and Research Program under the mentorship of Dr. Landon Myer, — SOUTH AFRICA, SWAZILAND, LESOTHO, NAMIBIA a previous trainee of the Fogarty program After completing his MS, Nhlanhla Since 1993, Columbia University has been returned to the Swaziland Ministry of a key participant in the NIH Fogarty AIDS Health, where he is now the Head of the International Training and Research National AIDS Program, and is their country Program (AITRP). The program supports representative on the program’s Train- HIV/AIDS and related Tuberculosis train- ing Advisory Committee. He has estab- ing and research for health scientists, lished several research collaborations clinicians, and allied health workers from with European investigators in relation developing countries and emerging democ- to vaccine and microbicide development, racies in southern Africa. It is unique among and is building the clinical trial capacity AITRPs in having its principal investigator, in Swaziland where he was tasked with Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate establishing an Epidemiology Unit within Professor of Epidemiology, situated in a the Ministry of Health in 2009. Despite the developing country. With over 125 long- Swaziland’s academic isolation, he has term trainees and 186 short-term trainees been slowly building his team through in- who have come out of the program, the country training, maintaining links with the CU-Fogarty AITRP has had a major impact Centre for AIDS Programme of Research on building research and treatment capaci- in South Africa (CAPRISA) in Durban, ties in South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, including sending trainees and Namibia. Trainees of the program were from Swaziland to train at CAPRISA. involved in some of the major new scientifi c Nhlanhla arranged the fi rst National developments in HIV prevention over the Health Conference of the Department last year, including the major fi nding that of Health of Swaziland in 2010 and has a vaginal microbicide gel could be used to co-authored a number of local and prevent HIV, when to initiate ARV treatment international publications and policy in HIV-TB co-infected patients, and a study documents, including a baseline assess- showing that early antiretroviral treat- ment on HIV/AIDS issues among factory ment of children infected with HIV is more health workers in Swaziland, in July 2008. cost-effective than deferred treatment. A Fogarty alum and graduate of the Department’s MS program, Nhlanhla Nhlabatsi, did his fi rst Fogarty traineeship in 2001. Nhlanhla is currently doing his second Fogarty traineeship and doing his doctoral studies in HIV Epidemiology and Health
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Epidemiology faculty in The International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP)
ICAP at Columbia University was founded CAP works hand-in-hand with ministries of health, academic insti- tutions, and non-governmental organizations to plan, design and at the Mailman School in 2004. It is one of support the implementation of public health related programs. These the largest multicountry programs focused Iinclude programs focused on HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health. ICAP’s approach has centered on the strengthening on HIV and related conditions. Led by Dr. of health systems through design of innovative evidence-based models of care, training and mentorship, infrastructure development related Wafaa El-Sadr, Professor of Epidemiology to facilities, laboratories, drug and commodity procurement, monitor- and Medicine and leader of the Department’s ing and evaluation systems, and strengthening planning, management and fi nancial management skills. By the end of December 2010, more Infectious Disease cluster, ICAP is currently than a million persons with HIV have received services through ICAP working in 14 countries in sub Saharan Africa, supported programs. In addition, close to 2 million pregnant women have received HIV testing, and for those found to be HIV infected access 3 countries in Central Asia, and in the US. to appropriate treatment was provided. Similarly, close to 2 million persons in sub Saharan Africa have received HIV testing and appropriate Most of the ICAP faculty are appointed in the referrals thereafter through ICAP-supported programs. Department of Epidemiology. ICAP has also sought to answer key questions through research lay- ered on its programmatic platform. Currently, ICAP is conducting more than 60 research studies globally that encompass clinical trials, epide- miological studies, behavioral interventions, and operations research. ICAP has also been building on its extensive global platform, offering students from MSPH, other schools at Columbia University, and other institutions the opportunity to be engaged in global activities. Selected CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT students are linked with NY-based or internationally-based ICAP pro-
A MOTHER AND HER THREE WEEK OLD BABY. THE INFANT HAS BEEN BROUGHT INTO grams where they work on pre-selected projects under the supervision THE CLINIC AT GBOGUHE FOR CHECK UP. of experienced mentors. ICAP’s faculty play a large role in the Department of Epidemiology as THIS WOMAN RECENTLY LEARNED THAT SHE IS HIV POSITIVE. SHE IS MARRIED AND AFRAID TO TELL HER HUSBAND. HERE, AT THE CLINIC IN BOGUEDIA, SHE RECEIVES well, leading key courses, providing mentorship to master’s and doc- COUNSELING AND A CHECK-UP. toral students, and participating in key committees. They also collabo- rate with other faculty in this and other departments, and work closely CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE PEDIATRICS WAITING AREA AT A MOZAMBIQUE HOSPITAL. with the Chair to guide the direction of our Department.
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A MOTORCYCLE TRANSPORTS BLOOD SAMPLES TO A HEALTH CENTER IN TANZANIA.
BLOOD SAMPLES BEING TESTED AT A LAB AT A HOSPITAL IN TANZANIA.
AN HIV SUPPORT GROUP LEADER IN BOUAFLE CONDUCTS A CONDOM DEMONSTRATION.
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Professor of Epidemiol- Dr. Elaine Abrams, Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Rosalind Carter, Assistant Professor ogy and Medicine, has been at the forefront and Epidemiology, is the Senior Director of Clinical of Epidemiology, researches of HIV/AIDS and TB research, prevention, for Research at ICAP, where she oversees the prevention of (MTCT) and researches and treatment for several decades. Her all aspects of its research efforts. This pediatric HIV care and treatment. At ICAP, academic career over the past 25 years has includes providing guidance for design she supervises and conducts independent spanned the history of the epidemic in this and implementation of research studies; analyses of the MTCT Plus Initiative to country and globally. She has succeeded in establishing standard operating procedures share best practices for implementing linking research, training, and practice and for conduct of research; and supporting a family-focused HIV care model in sub- in taking programs to scale. As director of innovative clinical, operations, behavioral, Saharan Africa. She also provides technical ICAP, she leads a staff of more than 1,000 and implementation research in the context assistance for monitoring and evaluation individuals around the world engaged in of programmatic scale-up. She also leads of pediatric programs at University Teaching ground-breaking work. She currently plays ICAP’s design and implementation of Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, and sup- a key leadership role in the NIH-funded programs that work on the prevention of ports the improvement of monitoring and HIV Prevention Network. In the Depart- mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) evaluation systems for PMTCT and pediatric ment of Epidemiology, Dr. El-Sadr is head of and pediatric care and treatment in sub- programs in most ICAP countries. In the the infectious disease cluster and focuses Saharan Africa. Dr. Abrams’ research inter- Department of Epidemiology she has her current research on strategies for the ests have focused on mother-to-child HIV contributed to core classes by giving guest prevention and management of HIV and transmission (MTCT), the natural history of lectures in Principles of Epidemiology and TB. She also leads the MSPH Global Health pediatric HIV, and optimizing antiretroviral Epidemiology of Infectious Disease and Initiative. She has been recognized through therapy for children. serving as an academic advisor and a mas- a number of awards, including being named ter’s thesis primary and secondary reader a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foun- for about 20 students. dation Fellow in 2009.
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Dr. Francine Cournos, Professor of Clinical Dr. David Hoos, Assistant Professor of Clini- Psychiatry (in Epidemiology), serves as cal Epidemiology, is Senior Implementation Senior Project Offi cer for Adherence, Director at ICAP where he oversees the Psychosocial Support, and Mental Health implementation of the largest CDC grant to within ICAP’s Clinical Unit. Her work in support HIV prevention, care, and treatment ICAP has also included a collaboration with programs in eight countries. In addition, Dr. the Rwandan Ministry of Health to develop Hoos has played a pivotal role in directing and implement an initiative that integrates drug procurement for the MTCT-Plus Initia- HIV care and mental health care. In the tive. At the Mailman School, Dr. Hoos served Department of Epidemiology, she is helping as coordinator for the Fogarty International to build the student and young faculty com- Center of the NIH-funded Columbia Uni- ponent of the Global Mental Health Program versity/Southern Africa AIDS International (GMHP). Dr. Cournos’ research has focused Training and Research Program (AITRP). He on the interface between HIV infection and is a member of the Department’s Doctoral mental illness. Committee.
Dr. Batya Elul, Assistant Professor of Clini- Dr. Andrea A. Howard, Associate Professor cal Epidemiology, is the Acting Director of of Clinical Epidemiology, is Deputy Director ICAP’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of the Clinical Unit at ICAP. Her research fo- Unit, which is responsible for assessing cuses on the epidemiology of HIV and related the progress and impact of all of ICAP’s infections, including hepatitis C and TB. Dr. work. ICAP’s M&E team collects, manages, Howard oversees a team that provides tech- analyzes, and disseminates multi-level nical assistance in the integration of preven- data from more than 1,300 ICAP-supported tion, care, and treatment programs for TB facilities. Dr. Elul also leads or collaborates and HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa. She on several studies related to the scale-up is also the clinical lead for ICAP’s new HIV of HIV services, with a particular focus on care and treatment program in Central Asia. retaining patients who are not yet eligible Dr. Howard directs the Infectious Disease for treatment and integrating reproductive Epidemiology course at the Mailman School health and HIV services. Within the Depart- and serves on the steering committee of the ment, she is a member of the Master’s Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology A YOUNG GIRL AND HER MOTHER SIT AND WATCH WHILE THEIR Committee, serves as the representative to Research (CIDER) training program. FAMILY MEMBER GETS AN OUTPATIENT CHECKUP. the Global Health Track (GHT) Committee, and advises many of the department’s GHT Dr. Jessica Justman, Associate Professor of master’s students. Clinical Medicine (in Epidemiology), is Senior Technical Director of ICAP. In this role, she Dr. Robin Flam, Assistant Clinical Profes- oversees clinical, monitoring and evalu- sor of Medicine and Epidemiology, is the ation, and health systems-strengthening Director of the ICAP Clinical Unit. Along activities for HIV prevention, care, and with Dr. Zena Stein, Dr. Flam highlighted as treatment programs. She also supervises early as 1981 the HIV epidemic’s potential ICAP’s clinical laboratory support activities effect on women. At ICAP, she has focused with the assistance of a team of regional on the incorporation of evidence-based and local laboratory advisors. In addition, research into the development of HIV Dr. Justman serves as Associate Director of programs. Her main effort is in defi ning the CIDER. Her primary research interest is and disseminating models and practical in HIV prevention. She is an active investiga- methods for building in-country capacity tor in the NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trials while supporting the delivery of high quality, Network (HPTN). She has conducted several family focused, comprehensive services in HIV prevention clinical trials, particularly resource limited settings. Dr. Flam is also microbicide studies, and currently serves the Principal Investigator of the ICAP Nurse as co-Chair of the HPTN’s Women’s HIV Capacity Initiative. This Health Resources Seroincidence Study (ISIS). Dr. Justman was and Services Administration (HRSA)-funded instrumental in identifying risks associated initiative aims to strengthen pre-service and with diabetes and other metabolic complica- in-service education and training of nurses tions in these women, and the metabolic as a means of enhancing the health service. side-effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy In the Department, Dr. Flam serves on the has remained one of her major research in- Epidemiology Doctoral Committee and terests. In the Department she serves on the mentors and advises doctoral and master’s Doctoral Committee, mentors master’s and students. doctoral students, and represents us on the school-wide Faculty Steering Committee.
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Epidemiology Global Health Track Students describe their international practicum experiences
The Global Health Track (GHT) AFRICA program prepares master’s students for either management HAMSA SUBRAMANIAM, TANZANIA or policy careers in organizations I was working for Helen Keller International (HKI) in the Tanzania country working to improve health in other offi ce located in Dar es Salaam. A Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) campaign takes place twice-yearly for children 6-59 months of age, however data for countries. Epidemiology students monitoring coverage and progress of the program is unreliable. By conducting in the GHT gain an orientation to a post-event coverage survey (a randomized cluster sampling method) to vali- date administrative data, HKI can assist the government in identifying children epidemiologic applications within missed by this essential child survival program. I assisted in training data col- lectors, traveled with data collection teams throughout Tanzania mainland and global health settings, including Zanzibar to guide data quality, and conducted district and zonal workshops to a 6-month overseas practicum. assist low performing district improve coverage. It’s easy to forget that one rarely starts with a clean data set, but in my Here, 6 epidemiology students time in Tanzania, I was reminded that data is messy. This experience made describe their 2010 practicum me realize how diffi cult it is to collect sound data in low resource settings. The sad irony is that without sound data, providing evidence-based solu- experiences. tions is challenging, and these are the settings that require it the most. I was incredibly fortunate to be working with a team that recognized this diffi culty and passionately pursued the truth. Working at HKI revealed to me the power of data, and I am forever grateful for the supportive mentorship and guidance I received during my time there. Words cannot express the affection I have for that country, and I hope to work there again some day.
VERONICA LEE, ETHIOPIA
For my practicum, I worked with Academy for Educational Development and the International Food Policy Research Institute on the Alive and Thrive Project, which is a Gates Foundation-funded initiative to promote optimal infant and young child feeding practices among children up to 2 years of age for the pre- vention and reduction of childhood stunting. My specifi c responsibilities as the ANGELIE SINGH IN SENEGAL Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) intern included supporting the M&E team on the implementation of the project’s baseline survey in 2 regions of the country and on the design of process evaluation for the project’s activities. The most valuable part of my experience was visiting the households in the villages and getting to speak with the mothers about their health be- haviors and practices. It provided a huge insight into understanding how the interventions we promote as public health professionals, like exclusive breast- feeding or bednet use to protect against malaria, play out at the household level—why they are or are not adopted or how they are modifi ed to best suit the mother’s and family’s needs. It allowed me to see fi rsthand how critical it is to transform effi cacious researching fi ndings into health interventions of a holistic approach in order to be truly effective in improving health outcomes at the household level.
VERONICA LEE IN ETHIOPIA INTERVIEWING A MOTHER ABOUT HER CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES
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ANGELIE SINGH, MALI AND SENEGAL SOUTH AMERICA
With Millennium Villages Project, I had the chance to work on a community- based malnutrition treatment program in the grasslands of central Mali and KEITH ATCHISON, BRAZIL northern Senegal. I loved learning from and brainstorming with the site teams and local leaders on how best to implement new studies and programs, but my I was working on a project to evaluate envi- most enlightening moments came from interviewing the mothers, fathers, and ronmental predictors of dengue incidence in caretakers of malnourished children in the remote villages of Senegal. Recife, Brazil. I was working with FIOCRUZ, an institution that works under the Brazilian Ministry of Health. This was a valuable experi- ASIA ence for me because I greatly improved my language skills. It was also eye-opening to see how the Brazilian workplace functions. There was just a greater sense of community among LINDSEY LOCKS, NEPAL everyone working where I was and less ego. There was a communal area for coffee where I spent my practicum working with Helen Keller International in Nepal. I am everyone would take breaks together and chat particularly interested in malnutrition in children under 2 years, and this was for 30 minutes or so. It was nice to see people a great opportunity to continue to work in this fi eld, while learning more about just putting work aside for a little and getting food-based approaches to address this challenge. As an epidemiology student, to know the people better who they spent 40+ I also really enjoyed familiarizing myself with a cluster, randomized control hours a week with. trial that is testing the impact of an integrated homestead food production and nutrition behavior change communication strategy across control and inter- vention communities. It was great to see how an epidemiological framework can be applied to operations research on community-based interventions. I also loved the people whom I had a chance to work with in Nepal, and of course, trekking in the Himalayas!
MARIE STONER, INDONESIA
I did my practicum in Jakarta, Indonesia, working for an NGO called Mercy Corps in monitoring and evaluation. Mercy Corp’s projects in Indonesia target urban, slum areas. Initially, I was assisting with the evaluation of a project that was using a mother support group model to increase exclusive and early LINDSEY LOCKS RECEIVING BHAI TIKA FOR TIHAR, IN NEPAL initiation of breastfeeding. Exclusive breastfeeding has been declining rapidly in Indonesia and early initiation remains low. I helped to analyze and write up the results of a cluster randomized control trial comparing neighborhoods that received the intervention versus neighborhoods that did not. In the second half of my practicum, I led an evaluation of another project focused on launch- ing healthy food carts in communities to both improve nutrition and to provide additional business opportunities. We analyzed fi nancial information related to the economic component of the project, did a random survey of 150 people in the area, and conducted several qualitative interviews. I also assisted with other tasks in the offi ce, including creating a monitoring system, article writing, helping with an assessment for another economic project and even conducting a biostatistics workshop (which I did not expect to do). From my experience, having a solid knowledge of epidemiological methods and analysis provides valuable insights into understanding how programs and data systems can be improved. However, it also taught me to challenge these concepts and MARIE STONER IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA to think about ways that “ideal” epidemiological methods can be adapted to challenging and complex environments.
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Visiting scholars guide Around nYC Important facts about short- A guide to museums and events for and long-term visitors to the summer visitors to New York Department, including pre-approvals, visas, titles, office space, and lodging
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Master’s thesis grading guidelines Master’s thesis dataset form A detailed checklist to guide faculty Collecting information from faculty in grading master’s theses about datasets available for use by master’s students
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Visiting Faculty and Scholars: Guidelines
The Department of Epidemiology welcomes An IMPORTAnT nOTE: HOUSInG scholars who want to spend sabbaticals or Visitors are responsible for identifying and funding their own short periods of time with us, provided that housing. They should be made aware in advance that housing options at Columbia are extremely limited and that NYC housing the three steps below are followed. in general tends to be very expensive. Listed below are a number of housing resources that visitors are encouraged to explore.
STEP 1: COnTACT THE CHAIR’S OFFICE FOR APPROVAL I Just down the street from Mailman at 50 Haven Avenue is Bard Hall, which can accommodate a limited number The sponsoring faculty member should email the Chair about the of visitors to the CUMC for short-term stays. Call to proposed visitor. All proposed visitors to the Department in any inquire about availability and rates: 212-304-7000. capacity must be approved by the Chair’s offi ce. Approval is contin- gent on the following criteria: I The University hosts a subletting site for on- and off-campus apartments. http://columbia.edu/cu/ire/ I there is a sponsoring faculty member who wishes to sublease/subregistry.html invite the visitor and who feels that the visitor will add I The Columbia Offi ce of Work-Life offers guidance in to the intellectual life of the Department fi nding a range of temporary housing options. I the visitor is a fit with the Department’s strategic http://worklife.columbia.edu/housing-relocation mission. I The Columbia Offi ce of Postdoctoral Affairs also I the visitor is committed to participating in the life of offers guidance, specifi cally to postdoctoral research the Department and will attend Department seminars, fellows and scientists. Notably, there is a limited CUEGRs and so forth amount of on-campus housing at CUMC available via a monthly lottery. http://postdocs.columbia.edu/ I there is no cost to us in terms of either salary housing.html#1 or accommodation
I we have adequate offi ce space to host our visitors Outside of the University, there are also some options for short term housing that have been helpful in the past:
STEP 2: WORK WITH MR. BRIAn VAn BUREn On TITLE, VISA, UnI I The Morningside Inn at 235 West 107th Street offers hotel accommodations for visitors starting Once approval from the Chair has been secured, the sponsoring fac- at $75/night. http://morningsideinn-ny.com ulty member should contact Mr. Brian Van Buren, Associate Director of Epidemiology HR/Faculty Affairs, who will evaluate the purpose I International House provides housing for international of the visit, the funding source, and the CV to determine whether a scholars visiting NYC. http://ihouse-nyc.org/s/707/ visitor will require a formal faculty or staff appointment, volunteer start.aspx status, a visa, or other special considerations. He will guide both the I Sabbatical Homes connects faculty from around sponsoring faculty member and the visitor through the visa/appoint- the world who are looking for rentals and home ment process, manage the on-boarding process, and create a UNI. exchanges. http://sabbaticalhomes.com It is important to keep in mind that:
I regardless of length of stay, all visitors who will be spending time in the Department must be registered with Human Resources, per University policy.
I Mr. Van Buren must be alerted several months in advance of the proposed visit.
STEP 3: WORK WITH MS. EBOnY KInG On OPERATIOnS
Once there is an estimated date for the visitor’s arrival, Ms. Ebony King will coordinate with the sponsoring faculty member about space, equipment, and telecommunications considerations. Ms. King will make every effort to place the visitor near his/her planned collaborator(s), but this may not always be possible.
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Around nYC
MUSEUMS Governor’s Island (govisland.com/html/home/home.shtml) Take a free ferry ride from South Ferry in Manhattan to this former U.S. Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org), one of the world’s Coast Guard site, which now offers cycling, paddle boating, minia- largest art museums. ture golf, and outdoor concerts .
Cooper-Hewitt national Design Museum (cooperhewitt.org), Puerto Rican Day Parade (nationalpuertoricandayparade.org) This housed in Andrew Carnegie’s former mansion and devoted to popular parade celebrates the nation of Puerto Rico and its people. historic and contemporary design. It takes place on Sunday, June 12, along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (guggenheim.org/new-york) Central Park SummerStage (summerstage.org) offers an eclectic a famous contemporary art museum housed in one of the city’s mix of music programming in Central Park, with many free shows. most unique buildings, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mermaid Parade (coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml) is a popular The Museum of Modern Art (moma.org) One of the world’s best parade that takes place in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brook- known modern and contemporary art museums. Visit the main lyn in mid-to-late June. Participants dress in aquatic costumes and museum in Midtown Manhattan or MOMA PS1 (ps1.org), its satellite ride marine-themed fl oats. exhibition space in Queens. WALKInG TOURS American Museum of natural History (amnh.org) World renowned scientifi c collections and exhibits on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Want a tour of some of NYC’s distinct neighborhoods? Check out one of the city’s many walking tours. new York City Tenement Museum (tenement.org) Learn about the history of immigrants in New York at a former tenement home on (gonyc.about.com/od/toursbr/new_York_City_Walking_Tours.htm) the Lower East Side.
Close to campus on Broadway and West 155th St. is the free RESTAURAnTS Hispanic Society of America Museum (hispanicsociety.org), which features archaeology, paintings, sculpture, and textiles from early New York features some of the world’s best restaurants. Spanish history to modern day. For more information on restaurants, visit Chowhound (chowhound. Also near campus is The Cloisters (metmuseum.org/Works_of_ chow.com/boards/18), Zagat (zagat.com/newyork), Yelp (yelp.com/ Art/the_cloisters), which is devoted to medieval European art and nyc), and new York Magazine (nymag.com/restaurants). architecture. Don’t forget to take a stroll around the site of the museum, beautiful Fort Tryon Park, (nycgovparks.org/parks/fort- Don’t forget, for one week in late June, you can get great deals on tryonpark) which overlooks the Hudson River. lunch and dinner during Restaurant Week (gonyc.about.com/cs/ restaurants/a/restaurantweek.htm)!
FREE SUMMER EVEnTS To learn more about tours, restaurants, museums, and nightlife, visit Time Out new York (newyork.timeout.com), new York Shakespeare in the Park (publictheater.org) A favorite summer Magazine (nymag.com/visitorsguide), or the city’s offi cial tourism activity for New Yorkers, see free performances of Shakespeare plays site (iloveny.com) in Central Park (Tip: Get in line early for tickets because they go fast!) new York Philharmonic Concerts in the Park (nyphil.org/attend/ summer/index.cfm?page=parks) Enjoy to the city’s symphony orchestra outdoors. Bring food and a picnic blanket!
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival (bryantpark.org/plan-your-vis- it/fi lmfestival.html) Watch free movies under the stars at one of the city’s most beautiful parks. For a less crowded alternative, check out the other parks (gonyc.about.com/od/summer/a/summermov- ies.htm) in the city that offer free movies throughout June.
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Name of Student: Thesis Reader:
AREA PTS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE THESIS SCORE
A Research 10 Thesis poses a clear research question and/or associated hypotheses 10 PTS question and Thesis poses a clear but limited or fl awed research question and/or hypotheses 8 9 PTS associated hypotheses Thesis does not pose a clear research and/or hypotheses <7 PTS
B Conceptual 10 Thesis uses relevant theoretical/conceptual frameworks in insightful or innovative ways 10 PTS framework Thesis uses relevant theoretical/conceptual frameworks appropriately 8 9 PTS
Thesis uses theoretical/conceptual frameworks in a perfunctory way <7 PTS
C Literature 10 Student provides a full scan of relevant literature and critiques literature in a sophisticated way review that advances the discussion of the topic 10 PTS
Student provides a full scan of relevant literature but weaker critique 8 9 PTS
Student provides a scan of the relevant literature but it is incomplete <7PTS
D Study design, 15 Design or statistical methods are innovative or sophisticated 15 PTS sample and Design and statistical methods are appropriate and clearly described 12 14 PTS statistical methods Design and statistical methods are inappropriate or overly simplistic <11 PTS
E Tables and 5 All tables and fi gures are clear, include legends and are relevant to the questions posed 5 PTS fi gures Tables and fi gures and legends are clear, but not tightly linked to the questions posed 4 PTS
Figures and tables do not fully address the questions or hypotheses posed or are not clear <3 PTS
F Results 15 Results are clearly articulated and closely linked to the research question and hypotheses 15 PTS section Results are clearly summarized but not fully connected to the research questions posed 12 14
The methods or analyses are inappropriate and/or inaccurately described <11 PTS
G Discussion 15 Demonstrates excellent synthesis of results and applies to published literature 15 PTS section Demonstrates excellent synthesis of results but less successful in applying to published literature 12 14 PTS
Poor synthesis of results and/or limited understanding of how results fi t into context of previous research on thesis topic <11 PTS
H Overall quality 10 Thesis is extremely well written eg publishable with minor revisions 10 PTS of writing Thesis is clearly organized but might benefi t from more careful attention to transitional sentences, to fl ow of the arguments, or grammar and syntax 8 9 PTS
Thesis has signifi cant organizational or proofreading errors <7 PTS
I Citations 10 Scholarly ideas are cited properly 10 PTS
Scholarly ideas are cited but may contain some errors 8 9 PTS
Scholarly ideas are not well cited or contain serious errors <7 PTS
TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS 100 Total
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In grading, the reader may consider not only the included ratings but additional strengths and weaknesses (described in comments, below). The thesis grade may also take into account intellectual growth of student in the process of writing their thesis (e.g., improvement in writing skills, learning new statistical methods and software appropriate to project).
The fi nal grade for the thesis is the result of discussion between both readers and should be communicated to Liliane Zaretsky ([email protected]) for processing. The reader should communicate the grade directly to the student as well.
Thank you for your work with Epidemiology master’s students.
Additional Comments / Concerns:
Final Grade:
Grader’s Signature: Date:
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If you have data sets that you can make available to students for their master’s theses, please fi ll out this form and email to Dr. Renee Goodwin. [email protected]
Name: Date:
PLEASE BRIEFLY DESCRIBE EACH AVAILABLE DATASET, WITH A SHORT STUDY TITLE, THE STUDY DESIGN, THE EXPOSURES, THE OUTCOMES, AND ANY SPECIAL FEATURES THAT YOU THINK MAY BE RELEVANT. (USE EXTRA PAGES AS NEEDED)
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How would you prefer students to contact you? What database software do you use? PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY, AND PROVIDE YOUR PHONE AND EMAIL PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY
BY TELEPHONE ______ ACCESS
BY EMAIL ______ EXCEL
IN PERSON SAS
OTHER SPECIFY ______ SPSS
OTHER SPECIFY ______
What statistical software do you use? How many MPH students are you willing to PLEASE CHECK ALL THAT APPLY supervise this year?
SAS ______ SPSS
STATA S-PLUS Thank you for helping us to fulfi ll our OTHER SPECIFY ______commitment to these students.
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KT, Wareham NJ, van Boeckel PG, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Lubin JH, Zablotska LB, Tereschenko VP, McConnell RJ, 2011;93(4):826-35. PMID: 21346093 Overvad K, Uhre Jakobsen M, Tjonneland A, Halkjaer J, Agnoli C, Mattiello A, Tumino R, Masala G, Vineis P, Naska Zamotaeva GA, O’Kane P, Bouville AC, Chaykovskaya LV, El-Khatib Z, Ekstrom AM, Coovadia A, Abrams EJ, Petzold A, Orfanos P, Trichopoulou A, Kaaks R, Bergmann MM, Greenebaum E, Paster IP, Shpak VM, Ron E. I-131 Dose- M, Katzenstein D, Morris L, Kuhn L. Adherence and viro- Steffen A, Van Guelpen B, Johansson I, Borgquist S, Manjer Response for Incident Thyroid Cancers in Ukraine Related logic suppression during the first 24 weeks on antiretroviral J, Braaten T, Fagherazzi G, Clavel-Chapelon F, Mouw T, to the Chornobyl Accident. Environ Health Perspect. 2011 therapy among women in Johannesburg, South Africa - a Norat T, Riboli E, Rinaldi S, Slimani N, Peeters PH. The Mar 14; PMID: 21406336 prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2011;11(1):88. association of education with body mass index and waist PMID: 21303548 Cacho J, Benito-León J, Louis ED. Methods and Design circumference in the EPIC-PANACEA study. BMC Public of the Baseline Survey of the Neurological Disorders in Exner TM, Mantell JE, Hoffman S, Adams-Skinner J, Stein Health. 2011;11(1):169. PMID: 21414225 Salamanca (NEDISA) Cohort: A Population-Based Study in ZA, Leu CS. Project REACH: a provider-delivered dual protec- Hobfoll SE, Canetti D, Hall BJ, Brom D, Palmieri PA, John- Central-Western Spain. Neuroepidemiology. 2011;36(1):62- tion intervention for women using family planning services in son RJ, Pat-Horenczyk R, Galea S. Are community studies 68. PMID: 21252583 New York City. AIDS Care. 2011:1-9. PMID: 21271391 of psychological trauma’s impact accurate? A study among Calder PC, Deckelbaum RJ. Harmful, harmless or helpful? Gal G, Goldberger N, Kabaha A, Haklai Z, Geraisy N, Gross Jews and Palestinians. Psychol Assess. 2011 Mar 7. PMID: The n-6 fatty acid debate goes on. Curr Opin Clin Nutr R, Levav I. Suicidal behavior among Muslim Arabs in Israel. 21381832 Metab Care. 2011;14(2):113-4. PMID: 21311251 Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2011 Feb 9. [Epub Honkavuori KS, Shivaprasad HL, Briese T, Street C, Hirsch- ahead of print]. PMID: 21305264 Chuang SC, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Ueland PM, Vollset berg DL, Hutchison SK, Lipkin WI. Novel picornavirus in SE, Middtun O, Olsen A, Tjønneland A, Overvad K, Boutron- Garcia A, Bakus Ii RC, Zalar P, Hoven CV, Brzezinski JZ, Turkey poults with hepatitis, california, USA. Emerg Infect Ruault MC, Morois S, Clavel-Chapelon F, Teucher B, Kaaks Nguyen TQ. Controlling Ion Motion in Polymer Light-Emit- Dis. 2011; 17(3):480-7. PMID: 21392440 R, Weikert C, Boeing H, Trichopoulou A, Benetou V, Naska ting Diodes Containing Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Electron Jakszyn P, González CA, Luján-Barroso L, Ros MM, Bueno- A, Jenab M, Slimani N, Romieu I, Michaud DS, Palli D, Injection Layers. J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Feb 7. [Epub ahead de-Mesquita HB, Roswall N, Tjønneland AM, Büchner FL, Sabina S, Panico S, Sacerdote C, Tumino R, Skeie G, Duell of print] PMID: 21299205 EJ, Rodriguez L, Molina-Montes E, Huerta JM, Larrañaga Egevad L, Overvad K, Raaschou-Nielsen O, Clavel-Chapelon N, Gurrea AB, Johansen D, Manjer J, Ye W, Sund M, Peeters Gerstein HC, Miller ME, Genuth S, Ismail-Beigi F, Buse JB, F, Boutron-Ruault MC, Touillaud MS, Chang-Claude J, Allen PH, Jeumink S, Wareham N, Khaw KT, Crowe F, Riboli E, Goff DC, Probstfield JL, Cushman WC, Ginsberg HN, Bigger NE, Kiemeney LA, Key TJ, Kaaks R, Boeing H, Weikert S, de-Mesquita BB, Vineis P. 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APRIL 2011 INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 31 IT, Skeie G, Sánchez MJ, Larrañaga N, Ardanaz E, Navarro Margolis AD, Joseph H, Belcher L, Hirshfield S, Chiasson Park Y, Neckerman K, Quinn J, Weiss C, Jacobson J, Rundle C, Rodríguez L, Ulmert D, Ehrnström R, Hallmans G, MA. ‘Never Testing for HIV’ Among Men Who Have Sex with A. Neighbourhood immigrant acculturation and diet among Ljungberg B, Roddam AW, Bingham SA, Khaw KT, Slimani Men Recruited from a Sexual Networking Website, United Hispanic female residents of New York City. Public Health N, Boffetta PA, Jenab M, Mouw T, Michaud DS, Riboli E. States. AIDS Behav. 2011 Jan 29. [Epub ahead of print] Nutr. 2011 Mar 18;:1-8. PMID: 21414245 Red Meat, Dietary Nitrosamines, and Heme Iron and Risk of PMID: 21279431 Patel V, Collins PY, Copeland J, Kakuma R, Katontoka S, Bladder Cancer in the European Prospective Investiga- Mayeux R, Reitz C, Brickman AM, Haan MN, Manly JJ, Lamichhane J, Naik S, Skeen S. The movement for global tion into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Cancer Epidemiol Glymour MM, Weiss CC, Yaffe K, Middleton L, Hendrie HC, mental health. Br J Psychiatry. 2011;198:88-90. PMID: Biomarkers Prev. 2011;20(3):555-9. PMID: 21239687 Warren LH, Hayden KM, Welsh-Bohmer KA, Breitner JC, 21282777 James-Todd T, Terry MB, Rich-Edwards J, Deierlein A, Morris JC. Operationalizing diagnostic criteria for Alzheim- Paxton A, Baxter SD, Fleming P, Ammerman A. Validation Senie R. Childhood Hair Product Use and Earlier Age at er’s disease and other age-related cognitive impairment- of the school lunch recall questionnaire to capture school Menarche in a Racially Diverse Study Population: A Pilot Part 1. Alzheimers Dement. 2011;7(1):15-34. lunch intake of third- to fifth-grade students. J Am Diet Study. Ann Epidemiol. 2011 Mar 19; PMID: 21421329 McGrath J, Brown A, St Clair D. Prevention and Assoc. 2011;111(3):419-24. PMID: 21338742 James-Todd T, Terry MB, Rich-Edwards J, Deierlein A, schizophrenia--the role of dietary factors. Schizophr Bull. Perri BR, Proops D, Moonan PK, Munsiff SS, Kreiswirth Senie R. Childhood Hair Product Use and Earlier Age at 2011;37(2):272-83. PMID: 20974747 BN, Goranson C, Ahuja SD. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Menarche in a Racially Diverse Study Population: A Pilot Miller M, Stürmer T, Azrael D, Levin R, Solomon DH. Opioid Cluster with Developing Drug Resistance, New York, New Study. Ann Epidemiol. 2011 Mar 19; PMID: 21421329 analgesics and the risk of fractures in older adults with ar- York, USA, 2003-2009. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011;17(3):372-8. Jao J, Lo W, Toro PL, Wyatt C, Palmer D, Abrams EJ, Carter thritis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011;59(3):430-8. PMID: 21391934 PMID: 21392426 RJ. Factors Associated with Decreased Kidney Function in Moorthy A, Kuhn L, Coovadia A, Meyers T, Strehlau R, Sher- Perucca P, Jacoby A, Marson AG, Baker GA, Lane S, Benn HIV-infected Adults Enrolled in the MTCT-Plus Initiative in man G, Tsai WY, Chen YH, Abrams EJ, Persaud D. Induction EK, Thurman DJ, Hauser WA, Gilliam FG, Hesdorffer DC. Sub-Saharan Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 Jan Therapy with Protease-Inhibitors Modifies the Effect of Adverse antiepileptic drug effects in new-onset seizures: 24. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 21266908 Nevirapine Resistance on Virologic Response to Nevirapine- A case-control study. Neurology. 2011;76(3):273-9. PMID: Jenness SM, Kobrak P, Wendel T, Neaigus A, Murrill CS, based HAART in Children. Clin Infect Dis. 2011;52(4):514- 21242496 Hagan H. Patterns of Exchange Sex and HIV Infection in 21. PMID: 21258105 Popat RA, Van Den Eeden SK, Tanner CM, Kamel F, Um- High-Risk Heterosexual Men and Women. J Urban Health. Morabia A, Costanza MC. Bridging health sciences and bach DM, Marder K, Mayeux R, Ritz B, Ross GW, Petrovitch 2011 Feb 1. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 21286827 community health. Prev Med. 2011;52(3-4):191-2. PMID: H, Topol B, McGuire V, Costello S, Manthripragada AD, Jenness SM, Neaigus A, Murrill CS, Wendel T, Forgione L, 21419929 [PubMed - in process] Southwick A, Myers RM, Nelson LM. Coffee, ADORA2A, and Hagan H. Estimated HIV Incidence Among High-Risk Het- CYP1A2: the caffeine connection in Parkinson’s disease. Morabia A, Costanza MC. The dark side of TV screens. Prev erosexuals in New York City, 2007. J Acquir Immune Defic Eur J Neurol. 2011 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: Med. 2011;52(2):97-98. PMID: 21262455 Syndr. 2011;56(2):193-7. PMID: 21233639 21281405 Morabia A. RE: “The Emergence of Translational Epide- Kerker BD, Bainbridge J, Kennedy J, Bennani Y, Ager- Rabkin M, El-Sadr WM. Why reinvent the wheel? Leveraging miology: From Scientific Discovery to Population Health ton T, Marder D, Forgione L, Faciano A, Thorpe LE. A the lessons of HIV scale-up to confront non-communicable Impact”. Am J Epidemiol. 2011 Feb 9. [Epub ahead of print]. population-based assessment of the health of homeless diseases. Glob Public Health. 2011;6(3):247-56. PMID: PMID: 21303804 families in New York City, 2001-2003. Am J Public Health. 21390970 2011;101(3):546-53. PMID: 21233439 Neaigus A, Miller M, Gyarmathy VA, Friedman SR. HIV Het- Rebok GW, Qiang Y, Baker SP, Li G. Pilot age and geo- erosexual Sexual Risk From Injecting Drug Users Among Keyes KM, Martins SS, Hatzenbuehler ML, Blanco C, Bates graphic region of commuter and air taxi crashes: a case- HIV-Seronegative Noninjecting Heroin Users. Subst Use LM, Hasin DS. Mental health service utilization for psychiat- control study. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2011;82(2):111-5. Misuse. 2011;46(2-3):208-17. PMID: 21303241 ric disorders among Latinos living in the United States: the PMID: 21329025 role of ethnic subgroup, ethnic identity, and language/social Newbrander W, Waldman R, Shepherd-Banigan M. Reitz C, Brayne C, Mayeux R. Epidemiology of Alzheimer preferences.Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2011 Feb Rebuilding and strengthening health systems and providing disease. Nat Rev Neurol. 2011 Feb 8. [Epub ahead of print] 3. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 21290097 basic health services in fragile states. Disasters. 2011; PMID: 21371086 Reitz C, Tokuhiro S, Clark LN, Conrad C, Vonsattel JP, Kigozi G, Nkale J, Wawer M, Anyokorit M, Watya S, Nalu- Hazrati LN, Palotás A, Lantigua R, Medrano M, Z Jiménez- goda F, Kagaayi J, Kiwanuka N, Mwinike J, Kighoma N, Newman AB, Glynn NW, Taylor CA, Sebastiani P, Perls TT, Velázquez I, Vardarajan B, Simkin I, Haines JL, Pericak- Nalwoga GK, Nakigozi GF, Katwalo H, Serwadda D, Gray Mayeux R, Christensen K, Zmuda JM, Barral S, Lee JH, Vance MA, Farrer LA, Lee JH, Rogaeva E, George-Hyslop RH. Designing and Usage of a Low-cost Penile Model for Simonsick EM, Walston JD, Yashin AI, Hadley E. Health and PS, Mayeux R. SORCS1 alters amyloid precursor protein Male Medical Circumcision Skills Training in Rakai, Uganda. function of participants in the Long Life Family Study: A processing and variants may increase Alzheimer’s disease Urology. 2011 Feb 4. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21296389 comparison with other cohorts. Aging (Albany NY). 2011. risk. 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Ompad DC, Friedman SR, Hwahng SJ, Nandi V, Fuller users reached by targeted street outreach and respondent- CM, Vlahov D. HIV Risk Behaviors Among Young Drug Li G, Baker SP, Zhao Q, Brady JE, Lang BH, Rebok GW, driven sampling strategies: implications for research and Using Women Who Have Sex With Women (WSWs) in New Dimaggio C. Drug Violations and Aviation Accidents: Find- public health practice. Ann Epidemiol. 2011;21(4):280-9. York City. Subst Use Misuse. 2011;46(2-3):274-84. PMID: ings from the U.S. Mandatory Drug Testing Programs. Ad- PMID: 21376275 21303247 diction. 2011 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21306594 Russo C, Jin Z, Homma S, Rundek T, Elkind MS, Sacco Ottman R, Barker-Cummings C, Leibson CL, Vasoli VM, Lovasi GS, Diez Roux AV, Hoffman EA, Smith LJ, Jiang R, RL, Di Tullio MR. Effect of obesity and overweight on left Hauser WA, Buchhalter JR. Accuracy of family history infor- Carr JJ, Barr RG. Socioeconomic Status is Positively Associ- ventricular diastolic function a community-based study in mation on epilepsy and other seizure disorders. Neurology. ated with Percent Emphysema on CT Scan The MESA Lung an elderly cohort. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;57(12):1368-74. 2011;76(4):390-396. PMID: 21263140 Study. Acad Radiol. 2011;18(2):199-204. PMID: 21232685 PMID: 21414533 Ottman R, Lipton RB, Ettinger AB, Cramer JA, Reed ML, Lucet JC, Nicolas-Chanoine MH, Roy C, Riveros-Palacios Santamaria EK, Dolezal C, Marhefka SL, Hoffman S, Ahmed Morrison A, Wan GJ. Comorbidities of epilepsy: Results O, Diamantis S, Le Grand J, Papy E, Rioux C, Fantin B, Y, Elkington K, Mellins CA. Psychosocial Implications of HIV from the Epilepsy Comorbidities and Health (EPIC) Survey. Lefort A, Ravaud P. Antibiotic use: knowledge and percep- Serostatus Disclosure to Youth with Perinatally Acquired Epilepsia. 2011 Jan 26. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: tions in two university hospitals. J Antimicrob Chemother. 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Cigarette, marijuana, and alcohol dia A, Gray GE, Kuhn L, Tiemessen CT. Effect of Maternal use and prior drug treatment among newly homeless young Williams VL, Cohen PR, Stewart DJ. Sorafenib-induced HIV-1 Status and Antiretroviral Drugs on Haematological adults in New York City: Relationship to a history of foster premalignant and malignant skin lesions. Int J Dermatol. Profiles of South African Infants in Early Life. Open AIDS J. care. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011 Jan 31. [Epub ahead of 2011 Apr;50(4):396-402. PMID: 21413947 2010;4:156-65. PMID: 21258570 print]. PMID: 21288659 Wu PC, Kim TH, Suvorova A, Giangregorio M, Saunders M, Sederer LI. Inpatient psychiatry: why do we need it? Epide- Tiemessen CT, Paximadis M, Minevich G, Winchester R, Bruno G, Brown AS, Losurdo M. GaMg Alloy Nanopar- miol Psichiatr Soc. 2010;19(4):291-5. PMID: 21322501 Shalekoff S, Gray GE, Sherman GG, Coovadia AH, Kuhn L. ticles for Broadly Tunable Plasmonics. Small. 2011 Mar Natural killer cell responses to HIV-1 peptides are associ- 21;7(6):751-6. PMID: 21425461 Shah NS, Richardson J, Moodley P, Moodley S, Babaria P, ated with more activating KIR genes and HLA-C genes of Wunsch H, Gershengorn H, Mayer SA, Claassen J. The Ramtahal M, Heysell SK, Li X, Moll AP, Friedland G, Sturm the C1 allotype. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011 Mar 9; effect of window rooms on critically ill patients admitted to AW, Gandhi NR. Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively PMID: 21407082 Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa. Emerg Infect intensive care with subarachnoid hemorrhages. Crit Care. Dis. 2011;17(3):510-513. PMID: 21392446 Toro PL, Schneider KL, Carter RJ, Abrams EJ, El-Sadr WM, 2011 Mar 3;15(2):R81. PMID: 21371299 Howard AA. Maternal and infant outcomes with concurrent Yang H, Wang Y, Xiao Y, Wang Y, Wu J, Liu C, Ye H, Li F, Yu H, Shalev N, Chiasson MA, Dobkin JF, Lee G. 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