Child and Adolescent Health

Expertise in the health of this vulnerable population ranges from nutrition to mental health to sexuality to understanding how socioeconomic factors inform access to good health.

Faculty in Child and Adolescent Health

Andrew Rundle

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Anne Paxton

Associate Professor

Epidemiology & Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Alwyn Cohall

Professor

Sociomedical Sciences, Population and Family Health, and Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Bruce Armstrong

Special Lecturer

Population and Family Health

Batya Elul

Associate Professor

Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center

Brenda Merritt

Clinical Professor Emerita

Sociomedical Sciences

Burton Edelstein

Professor

Health Policy and Management and Dentistry (in Community Health) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Carol Caton

Professor

Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Carolyn Westhoff

Professor

Epidemiology and Population and Family Health at the New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center

Carmen Rodriguez

Assistant Professor

Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Denise Kandel

Professor

Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)

Diane Di Mauro

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Population and Family Health

Diana Hernandez

Assistant Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

David Bell

Associate Professor

Population and Family Health and Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Daniel Pilowsky

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center

Deliang Tang

Associate Professor

Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Medical Center

Eric Schrimshaw

Associate Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Ezra Susser

Professor

Epidemiology and Psychiatry

Frederica Perera

Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Helena Duch

Assistant Professor

Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Irwin Redlener

Clinical Professor

Health Policy and Management and Pediatrics (in the Earth Institute)

Jeffrey Fagan

Professor

Epidemiology

Jasmine McDonald

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Judith Jones

Special Lecturer \ Professor Emeritia of Clinical

Population and Family Health

Joseph Graziano

Professor

Environmental Health Sciences and Pharmacology

Julie Herbstman

Associate Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

John Santelli

Professor

Population and Family Health

Jack Saul

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Population and Family Health

Katherine Keyes

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Lauren Houghton

Associate Research Scientist

Epidemiology

Louise Kuhn

Professor

Epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center)

Leslie Davidson

Professor

Epidemiology and Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Lindsay Stark

Associate Professor

Population and Family Health

Mary Ann Chiasson

Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (in Medicine)

Manuela Orjuela-Grimm

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Mary Clare Lennon

Professor of Clinical

Sociomedical Sciences

Mady Hornig

Associate Professor

Epidemiology (in the Center for Infection and Immunity) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Myrna Weissman

Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Matthew Perzanowski

Associate Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Madelyn Gould

Professor

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Melissa Stockwell

Associate Professor

Population and Family Health and Pediatrics

Neil Boothby

Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health

Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Patrick Wilson

Associate Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Renee Goodwin

Adjunct Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Rachel Moresky

Assistant Professor

Population and Family Health and Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center

Sally Findley

Professor

Population and Family Health & Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Medical Center

Shakira Suglia

Adjunct Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Susan Michaels-Strasser

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology (in ICAP) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Silvia Martins

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Virginia Rauh

Professor

Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Wendy Chavkin

Special Lecturer/ Professor Emerita

Population and Family Health and Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Xinhua Liu

Professor

Biostatistics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Yumiko Aratani

Assistant Professor

Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Medical Center

Y. Claire Wang

Associate Professor

Health Policy and Management

Morgan Philbin

Assistant Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Andrea Baccarelli

Chair and Leon Hess Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Nancy Sloan

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Population and Family Health

Robin Whyatt

Special Lecturer / Professor Emerita

Environmental Health Sciences

News & Features

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Could Flu During Pregnancy Raise Risk for Autism?

Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health found no evidence that laboratory-diagnosis alone of maternal influenza during pregnancy is associated with risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the offspring. They did, h

Autism Risk Linked to Fever During Pregnancy

Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The effect was most pronounced in the second trimester, r

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Ananth, C.V., Hansen, A.V. Williams, M.A., & Nybo Andersen, A.M. (2017). Cardiovascular Disease in Relation to Placental Abruption: A Population-Based Cohort Study from Denmark. Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. View abstract.

Elkind M.S. (2017). Clinical Trails in Childhood Stroke: From Consensus to Reality. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. View abstract.