Alumni Summit

2024 Alumni Summit

Save the date! The Columbia Mailman Alumni community will be gathering in New York City and virtually on Friday, September 27, 2024. Additional details coming soon. Make sure your contact information is up to date here. Contact us at MSPHEvents@cumc.columbia.edu with questions. 

COVID-Impacted Classes

Classes of 2020 and 2021 are invited to participate in the University's special ceremony for all graduates of those classes. Please find more information on the University Commencement Website

Past Recipients of the Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence

  • 2022: Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH
  • 2021: Dr. Melanie Bernitz, Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Dr. Donna Lynne
  • 2020: Leslie M. Kantor, PhD, MPH 
  • 2018: M. Monica Sweeney, MD, MPH, FACP
  • 2017: Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, MPH '03
  • 2016: John A. MacPhee, MBA, MPH '12
  • 2015: Paul Brandt-Rauf, ScD '74 MD '79, DrPH '87
  • 2014: Sten H. Vermund, MD, MPhil ’87, PhD ’90
  • 2013: Ilise Zimmerman, MS '79, MPH '79
  • 2012: David Michaels, MPH '81, PhD '87
  • 2011: Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim, MD '89
  • 2010: James T. Harden, MBA '78, MPH '83
  • 2009: Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH '85
  • 2008: Michael H. Barnett, MS '70, JD '72
  • 2007: Nancy R. Barhydt, RN, DrPH '79

Past Recipients of The Outstanding Recent Alumni Award

  • 2022: Dr. Ashley Gripper, MPH '17 
  • 2021: Dr. Alison Bateman-House, PhD '14, MPH '07
  • 2020: Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, DO, MPH, CPE, DABFM, FAAFP
  • 2019: Cynthia Cox, MPH '11
  • 2018: James M. Noble, MD, MS ’08
  • 2017: Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD (M.Phil.’06 and Ph.D. ’09)
  • 2016: Carlos A. Cuevas, MPA '12, MPH '12