Department of Population and Family Health
Tel: +1 (0)212 305 39 27
Fax: +1 (0)212 342 18 30
Email: ph-admit@columbia.edu
Internet: http://forcedmigration.columbia.edu/index.html
http://forcedmigration.columbia.edu/students/documents/PFMH_Spring_2008.pdf

The program is designed to prepare public health professionals to assume leadership positions in the fields of reproductive, adolescent, and child health. To do so, it provides them with the necessary theoretical and broader sociocultural perspectives; technical and substantive knowledge; and program and research skills.
Subject areas, presented from both domestic and international perspectives, include: sexual and reproductive health; adolescent health; child health; health and human rights; program development; program evaluation; management of health care organizations; service-based research design, instrument development, data collection, and data analysis; and forced migration and health. Supplementary knowledge and skills can be gained through courses in other programs including: epidemiology, biostatistics, health policy and management, sociomedical sciences, anthropology, sociology, international public affairs, and health education (at Teachers College, Columbia University).

1.) Forty-five credits of academic study
2.) Successful completion of the Medical Background exam
3.) A field practicum
4.) Capstone Experience
5.) Successful completion of the Forced Migration, Demography and Human Rights Technical Issues Modules

Lynne Loomis-Price
Academic Program Coordinator
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Tel: +1 (0)212 304 52 61
Fax: +1 (0)212 305 70 24
Email: ll2295@columbia.edu
Internet: http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/rac/index.html

Email: nutrition@columbia.edu
Internet: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/ihn/programs/ihn_programs0001.html

The goal of the Patient Oriented Research (POR) training program is to make you a more effective, successful, and competitive clinical investigator. You will be trained how to design, conduct, and evaluate clinical research studies, with close supervision and support from the program's directors. With expert guidance you will craft a research proposal that will be carefully assessed by program faculty, and your peers in the program. In addition to gaining better skills, you will leave the program with a Master of Science degree in Biostatistics (Patient Oriented Research Track), a valued credential to add to your curriculum vita.

The POR curriculum consists of 30 credits in total, including 21 credits of required coursework, 3 credits towards a Master’s essay, and 6 credits of elective coursework. Through specially focused coursework and a supervised Master’s essay, candidates for MS/POR will receive formal training in the following areas:

• Design of clinical research studies
• Laboratory methods for measurement of clinical indicators
• Conduct of observational & randomized studies
• Applied statistical methods
• Standards for scientific conduct
• Pursuit of research funding
• Critical review of the literature
• Use of software packages for data management & analysis

Patient Oriented Research Track
Department of Biostatistics
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
722 West 168th Street, Room R626E
New York, NY 10032
Tel: +1 (0(212 305 22 71
Fax: + (0)212 305 94 08
Email: mm3098@columbia.edu
Internet: http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/biostat/por/index.html

This program is one of the first of its kind that provides public health students with the conceptual and practical skills necessary to identify, analyze and address health issues connected to sexuality within a global context. These skills include the design, implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and advocacy efforts to enhance sexual health. Program graduates will be likely to work in organizations that address sexual health exclusively or as part of a broader agenda. The Sexuality and Health Track is an interdepartmental program, jointly created and delivered by the Departments of Population and Family Health and of Sociomedical Sciences.
Graduates of the Sexuality and Health Program will be able to:

• Differentiate and assess key frameworks for understanding sexuality, sexual health and sexual health promotion
• Explain the strengths and limitations of relevant social and behavioral scientific theories of sexuality and sexual health promotion;
• Analyze major sexual health issues including: HIV and other STI’s, sexual violence, unwanted pregnancies, stigmatization and discrimination based on sexual behavior /identity, reproductive autonomy;
• Explain the linkages between sexuality, gender and health, both across populations and in minority and stigmatized communities;
• Apply ethical and human rights perspectives to understanding sexuality and health.

Design, implement and evaluate strategies to promote sexual health on individual and community levels:
Apply the principles from relevant theories of behavioral and structural change to the development of strategies for sexual health promotion;
Apply insights gained from an understanding of the history and organization of programs and policies in this field to the development of strategies for sexual health promotion;
Apply ethical and human rights perspectives in designing and critiquing sexual health promotion strategies.

Autumn every year

Students are expected to have worked in the field of public health for a minimum of two years prior to admission.

Lynne Loomis-Price
Academic Program Coordinator
Department of Population and Family Health
Tel: +1 (0)212 304 52 61
Email: ll2295@columbia.edu
Internet: http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/sht/index.html