Population & Family Health

The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health fosters a rigorous, collegial environment where students gain essential knowledge and key competencies as they develop professional capacities to address in especially complex challenges in the field of public health.

Faces

Faculty, staff, and students bring a diverse set of experiences and expertise to the Mailman community.

Our students are among the Department's greatest resources. Coming from a variety of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences, they bring with them wisdom gained from hands-on work in the field. Above all, students are engaged in understanding health issues affecting populations at every level - locally, nationally, and globally.

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Places

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health provides students with once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to engage with innovative programs in the classroom at Columbia, in New York City, and around the world.

Columbia University and New York City

Learning

The Department provides students with unique skills and advantages in the study of public health. We consider the areas of education, research, and service delivery to be highly interdependent and make every effort to integrate a human rights perspective with all of our activities, so that our practice of public health promotes the greater social goals of human well-being, equality, and freedom.

MPH Competencies