Tag: public health

This week, the Columbia Mailman School welcomed 802 master’s and doctoral students with a diversity of experiences and backgrounds. They come from 42 states and 39 countries, the largest portion of international students to date, representing 38 percent of the new cohort.

Anthony Fauci was awarded the Frank A. Calderone Prize, the most prestigious honor in public health, at an April 27 ceremony in Alumni Auditorium on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center campus.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency:

The CDC is distributing almost $4 billion in public health grants, but community organizations that work in underserved areas say they’re being left out, despite their contributions to fighting the pandemic in the past, report Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas at CNN Health.

The federal government plans to end in January the public health emergency it declared earlier this year after an outbreak of mpox infected more than 29,000 people across the U.S.