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

Cassie Landers

Assistant Professor

Population and Family 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

Denise Kandel

Professor

Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)

Diana Hernandez

Assistant Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

David Bell

Associate Professor

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

Ezra Susser

Professor

Epidemiology and Psychiatry

Frederica Perera

Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Helena Duch

Adjunct 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

Joyce Pressley

Associate Professor

Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Columbia University Medical Center

John Santelli

Professor

Population and Family Health and Pediatrics

Katherine Keyes

Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Lauren Houghton

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Louise Kuhn

Professor

Epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center)

Leslie Davidson

Professor

Epidemiology and Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center

Mary Ann Chiasson

Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (in Medicine)

Melanie Gold

Professor

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

Manuela Orjuela-Grimm

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology and Pediatrics (in the HICCC) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Mady Hornig

Associate Professor

Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center

Maureen Miller

Adjunct Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Myrna Weissman

Diane Goldman Kemper Family Professor

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Matthew Perzanowski

Associate Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Marni Sommer

Associate Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Madelyn Gould

Professor

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Melissa Stockwell

Associate Professor

Population and Family Health and Pediatrics

Mary Beth Terry

Professor

Epidemiology (In Environmental Health Sciences)

Patrick Wilson

Associate Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Renee Goodwin

Adjunct Associate Professor

Epidemiology

Renata Schiavo

Senior Lecturer

Sociomedical Sciences

Rachel Moresky

Associate Professor

Population and Family Health and Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine 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

George Musa

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (in Psychiatry)

Chloe Teasdale

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology(IN ICAP) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Morgan Philbin

Assistant Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Andrea Baccarelli

Chair and Leon Hess Professor

Environmental Health Sciences

Raygine DiAquoi

Assistant Professor

Sociomedical Sciences

Andrea Low

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology (in ICAP) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Matthew Lamb

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology (In ICAP) at the Columbia University Medical Center

S. Patrick Kachur

Professor

Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center

Sally Findley

Professor

Population and Family Health (In Pediatrics and in the Center for Family and Community Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center

Jeanette Stingone

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Rupak Shivakoti

Assistant Professor

Epidemiology

Larkin McReynolds

Assistant Professor of Clinical

Epidemiology (In Psychiatry)

Janna Metzler

Adjunct Associate Research Scientist

Population and Family Health

News & Features

High-Density of Alcohol Outlets and Advertising Affect Youth Drinking

Alcohol use among Tanzanian youth is rising and the high density of alcohol selling outlets and alcohol advertisements coupled with low enforcement of minimum drinking age laws are likely facilitating this uptick, according to a study by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Healt

To Protect Kids and Teens from Firearm Harm, Answer These Questions First

Firearm injuries kill more American children and teens than anything else, except automobile crashes. But research on how those injuries happen, who’s most likely to suffer or die from one, or what steps would prevent them, has lagged behind research on other causes of death in young people.

Study Illustrates Gaps in Knowledge and Lack of Support for Girls During Puberty

A study led by Marni Sommer, DrPH, RN, associate professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia Mailman School, examined girls’ transitions through puberty in Madagascar and ways in which menstruation influences their educational experiences and future sexual and reproductive health. The fin

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Asghar, K., Mayevskaya, Y., Sommer, M., Razzaque, A., Laird, B., Khan, Y., Qureshi, S., Falb, K., & Stark, L. (2018). Promoting Adolescent Girls' Well-Being in Pakistan: a Mixed-Methods Study of Change Over Time, Feasibility, and Acceptability, of the COMPASS Program. Prev Sci. View abstract.

Sommer, M., Muñoz-Laboy, M., Williams, A., Mayevskaya, Y., Falb, K., Abdella, G., & Stark, L. (2018). How Gender Norms are Reinforced Through Violence Against Adolescent Girls in Two Conflicted-Affected Populations. Child Abuse & Neglect. View abstract.

Blake, S., Boone, M., Yenew Kassa, A. & Sommer, M. (2017). Teaching Girls About Puberty and Menstrual Hygiene Management in Rural Ethiopia. Journal of Adolescent Research. View abstract.

Ipapo, K.N., Factor-Litvak, P., Whyatt, R.M. … & Herbstman, J.B. (2017). Maternal Prenatal Urinary Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations and Visual Recognition Memory Among Infants at 27 Weeks. Environmental Research. View abstract.