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The faculty of the Mailman School of Public Health is comprised of world-class scholars, practitioners and activists. Their extraordinary diversity of academic and professional training creates a unique environment that fosters innovation and collaboration, helping to improve the health of communities in greater New York, throughout the United States, and around the world.

Mailman School faculty members bridge theory and practice through their research, teaching, and national and international field work. Ideas honed through interactions with students, colleagues, and practitioners find global applications, leading to the improvement of the public’s health the world over.

To attract, recognize, and retain exceptional faculty members, the Mailman School of Public Health offers a number of endowed professorships. The highest marks of distinction a university can bestow upon deserving faculty members, endowed professorships enable the School to encourage and reward excellence in scholarship and teaching.

Read our Professorship Spotlight on W. Ian Lipkin, John Snow Professor in Epidemiology.

At a time of intense competition for the leading scientists, scholars, and teachers in the field of public health, the Mailman School must add a number of endowed professorships to each of its departments in order to build upon the School’s tradition of excellence in public health practice, research, and education. Donors who value academic excellence and understand the critical role of endowed professorships in recruiting and retaining top talent may wish to consider establishing an endowed professorship in their own name(s) or in the name(s) of others they wish to honor. Once established, an endowed professorship exists in perpetuity, bringing distinction and honor to the donor(s), honoree(s) and their descendants in perpetuity.

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For information on gift levels required to endow professorships for Department Chairs and senior and junior faculty positions, as well as on matching funds available for some positions, please contact:

Jill Barkan
Associate Dean for Institutional Advancement
(212) 342-3151
jbb4@columbia.edu

Current Mailman School Professorships

In testament to the Mailman School’s community of generous friends, we are pleased to list the School’s current endowed professorships and their recipients: