Biostatistics Chair Embraces Complexity shar.es/a3BZIe via ColumbiaPublicHealth A profile story about me on the ColumbiaPublicHealth website - a glimpse into my life journey so far. feeling blessed and energized! Addis Ababa University University of Guelph University of Toronto Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @uscphs

Presidents and Deans: please find in yourself the courage to say: "police killed George Floyd" (there is a video of a man kneeling on his neck, after all). But if you don't have the courage, please stop spamming us with longwinded platitudes. Columbia University Harvard University

America doesn't need to diagnose the problem again. The nation has studied its racism on a loop for decades. It knows exactly what it needs to fix. My latest: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The NYPD’s budget is $6,000,000,000 That’s more than the city spends on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development combined.

BREAKING: Minneapolis City Council members have announced their intent to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and invest in community-led public safety.

Professors, Graduate School Directors, Dept. Chairs, PIs, Postdocs and white graduate students. Please take a few minutes to read stories from #BlackintheIvory We are telling our stories. True allies should be willing to listen.

For academics (especially White academics, but this goes for everyone) reading #BlackintheIvory and wondering how you can support Black students and academics here is a thread of things to consider a number which have been especially supportive of my own professional development

The protests are working nytimes.com/2020/06/09/opi…

postal workers deserve the respect that cops want

I don't know why these images have disappeared from our TLs, but the #BlackLivesMatter protests have not stopped. Dozens happened around the world today. This is Boston 👇

LOUISVILLE, KY JUST MADE HISTORY. WE PASSED BREONNA'S LAW, BANNING NO-KNOCK WARRANTS. NEXT, WE GO FEDERAL. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS.

Can we agree once and for all that a humane, pluralistic, healthy society benefits from embracing immigrants? National Immigration Forum Ali Noorani

Even though most news organizations stopped reporting on the protests as soon as the rioting stopped, peaceful protests and rallies like this continue to happen across the country. And cops continue to terrorize them.

Our new paper is out in the The Bulletin of the World Health Organization describing how to build nutrition programs that are more climate-sensitive. Such a pleasure working on this with the amazing Hannah Nissan and Will Simmons! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Tribute to IRI climate scientist Lisa Goddard. "She was a visionary. She took I.R.I. and turned it into a powerhouse for providing climate services to the world," says Lamont director/Columbia Climate School co-founding dean Dr. Maureen Raymo. Via The New York Times. nytimes.com/2022/01/22/cli…

Hannah Nissan et al. describe #climate-sensitive #nutrition programmes 🥘bit.ly/3gcPzqA

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Call for Abstracts by April 24: The 8th Annual NYC Epidemiology Forum- hosted by Columbia Epidemiology at ColumbiaPublicHealth on May 23, 2022! #NYCEF conference details: bit.ly/3vsAE2G Abstract submissions: bit.ly/3vvzLq4