Research & Service

The Mailman School is home to resources of extraordinary breadth and depth in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment with faculty and research centers that influence and impact scientific discovery, prevention, care and treatment initiatives worldwide.

Beginning in November, the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) assumed a lead role for the School in commemorating World AIDS Day - observed annually on December 1st - with a slate of programming that included an academic symposium entitled “HIV Scale-Up and Global Health systems,” a reception celebrating the November supplement of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (JAIDS, which features the work of several Mailman School faculty members), and a stage production of “Two Men Talking.”

Mailman School faculty members were available to share their perspectives on the epidemic's future.

A number of faculty members were also available to discuss various aspects of the epidemic with media outlets covering World AIDS Day.

Events and Faculty Speaker Information

HIV Scale-Up and Global Health Systems
Tuesday, December 1

Organized by the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the symposium included panels comprised of leading figures in the public health arena. The event, which drew an audience of more than one thousand, built upon issues raised in the November 2009 supplement of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS), which was organized by ICAP, and includes experiences and perspectives from colleagues at ICAP and around the world.

Two Men Talking

Tuesday, December 1
Miller Theatre, Free Admission
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
7:00 p.m.

This theatrical production is set in Johannesburg, where a teacher asks two rival schoolboys to tell each other a story. Decades later, they meet by chance in New York and begin a lifelong friendship.

Part storytelling and part conversation, "Two Men Talking" is an unscripted performance that shares their real stories of harassment, homophobia, racism, and HIV/AIDS. Audience members are invited to share as well, combining "elements of theatre, therapy, and real life."

HIV and Global Health
Monday, November 16

ICAP hosted a reception to mark the publication of the November Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (JAIDS) supplement. Entitled “HIV Scale-Up and Global Health Systems,” the supplement was guest-edited by Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, professor of Clinical Epidemiology and ICAP director. It features articles by 18 ICAP and Mailman School of Public Health faculty. The event included an informal panel discussion in which Dr. El-Sadr was joined by fellow Mailman School faculty members:

• Richard Parker, PhD, professor of Sociomedical Sciences and international core director of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies;
• Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, associate clinical professor of Epidemiology and director of health systems strategies, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP);
• David Hoos, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Clinical Epidemiology and senior implementation director, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP);
• Marita Murrman, EdD, associate clinical professor of Sociomedical Sciences; and
• Jessica Justman, MD, associate professor of Clinical Epidemiology, associate director of the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research, and senior technical director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP).

Mailman School HIV/AIDS Experts

Some of the Mailman School faculty with HIV/AIDS-related expertise are listed below. Visit the World AIDS Day Experts page for more information on individual faculty members and their areas of focus.

• Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, professor of clinical Epidemiology and global director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), professor of clinical Medicine at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Harlem Hospital Center
• Jessica Justman, MD, associate professor of clinical Medicine and Epidemiology and associate director for the Mailman School's Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research (CIDER)
• Richard Parker, PhD, director of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health and professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health
• Elaine Abrams, MD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School and professor of Pediatrics  
• David Hoos, MD, MPH, assistant professor of clinical Epidemiology
• Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, associate clinical professor of Epidemiology and associate clinical professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Marita Murrman, EdD, associate clinical professor of Sociomedical Sciences
• Alwyn T. Cohall, MD, director, Harlem Health Promotion Center, associate professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences and Clinical Population and Family Health
• Miguel Munoz-Laboy, DrPH, associate professor of Sociomedical Sciences