Project
AIDS International Training and Research
College of Physicians and Surgeons
There are 3 components to this Fogarty
research training supplement, all of which are
currently being implemented in the Dominican
Republic, using a well established network of
7 women_s health care . . . More »
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Brudney, Karen
| | Location
Dominican Republic
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Project
Application of Genetics and Genomics in Public Health in Developing Countries
Mailman School of Public Health
Research and Teaching About Ethical Applications of Genetics in health in Developing Countries . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Penchaszadeh, Victor B.
| | Location
Brazil
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Project
Assessment of Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability to Climate Change in North Africa
This project enhances scientific and technical capacity in countries in North Africa for (1) assessing current and future adaptive capacity and vulnerability of food production and water resources; . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Abou, Ayman
| | Locations
Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia
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Project
Assisting / Teaching Ob-Gyn at Hopital Ste. Croix Self
Columbia University Medical Center
Currently working at Hopital Ste. Croix to assist in programs there and to bring new techniques, technology, and instruments to them. . . . More »
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Haiti
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Project
Averting Maternal Death and Disability
Mailman School of Public Health
The Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program was established at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 1999 with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. . . . More »
| | Project Leaders
Rosenfield, Allan, Maine, Deborah
| | Locations
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan
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Project
Belize Riverkeeper
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The Belize River is the most important river system in Belize. It provides drinking water for thousands of persons and is home to threatened species, including the Central American river turtle, . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Chan, Derric
| | Location
Belize
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Project
Capacity Building and Training in Uses of Genetic and Genomics
Mailman School of Public Health
Capacity building and training in uses of genetics and genomics in the prevention of disease in developing countries, including the ethics of genetics research and genetic applications in the defense . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Penchaszadeh, Victor B.
| | Locations
Argentina, Brazil, Chile
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Project
Capacity Building in the Application of Genetics in the Prevention of Disease in Developing Countries
Mailman School of Public Health
Capacity building in the application of genetics in the prevention of disease in developing countries. . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Penchaszadeh, Victor B.
| | Locations
Argentina, Brazil
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Project
Center for Bioethics
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The mission of the Center for Bioethics (http://www.bioethicscolumbia.org) is to provide an inter-disciplinary, inter-professional forum to advance scholarly work and public understanding on . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Fischbach, Ruth
| | Locations
United States of America, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Uganda
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Project
Chronic Disease Management in the Russian Federation
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The EMEP Program in the Russian Federation began as a continuing medical-education program in hypertension and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and tuberculosis. We have transformed and evolved the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Greenberg, Henry
| | Location
Russian Federation (Europe)
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Project
Columbia-Clinton Foundation Dominican HIV/AIDS Treatment Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia faculty, funded by the Clinton Foundation, have worked closely with the Dominican government to develop a national plan for treatment of people living with HIV. Ongoing work includes . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Berkman, Alan
| | Location
Dominican Republic
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Project
Development of Women's Health Centers
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Development of free-standing amublatory women's health centers in Singapore and Malaysia, providing comprehensive up-to-date services using efficient critical-care pathways. Supervision and . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Lobo, Rogerio
| | Location
Singapore
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Project
Doctors for Global Health
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Non-governmental organization. Mission statement: To improve health and foster other human rights with those most in need by accompanying communities, while educating and inspiring others to . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Ratcliffe, Elyanne
| | Locations
El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Uganda
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Project
Establishment of a Modern Eye Bank
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Have helped Ministry of Health to prepare uniform donor legislation for passage in parliament. (1) Creation of a modern facility within the Republican Eye Hospital in Yerevan, Armenia. (2) Training . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Merriam, John
| | Location
Armenia
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Project
Establishment of the Model Infrastructure of HIV/AIDS Treatment System in Nairobi, Kenya
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The project is planned for five years in the limited small area to establish and operate the model HIV/AIDS treatment system through the free medical services to the residents of the slum area in . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Inada, Yoritaro
| | Location
Kenya
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Project
Ethiopian Public Health Training Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health
This is a broad program developing training materials and holding training conferences for Ethiopian health workers of all types. It has been in place for a number of years and includes the 5 . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Brown, Roy
| | Location
Ethiopia
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Project
Evaluation of a new PMTCT Monitoring System in Tanzania
Mailman School of Public Health
In order for PMTCT services to be the standard of care, it is important to monitor the service provision to ensure that all pregnant women are offered counselling, testing, and PMTCT services. We . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Findley, Sally
| | Location
Tanzania
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Project
Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed People in Uganda
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Myrna Weissman directed a study to modify group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for depression for use in Uganda. She sent a team to train local mental-health professionals in IPT procedures and . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Weissman, Myrna
| | Location
Uganda
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Project
HIV Care and Treatment Program in the Dominican Republic
Mailman School of Public Health
In collaboration with the Clinton Foundation, the HIV Care and Treatment Program in the Dominican Republic provides technical support for the establishment of HIV care and treatment programs in the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Berkman, Alan
| | Location
Dominican Republic
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Project
HIV Clinical Research and Treatment Programs in South Africa and the Dominican Republic
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The Division of Infectious Diseases is collaborating with the University of Kwazulu-Natal to assist in the establishment of an NIH-sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Unit and with study of the natural . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Hammer, Scott
| | Locations
South Africa, Dominican Republic
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Project
HIV Mental Health Training Project
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The project provides free training on the latest developments in mental health aspects of the AIDS epidemic. Since 1992 we have trained both health care and mental health care providers throughout . . . More »
| | Project Leader
McKinnon, Karen
| | Locations
Brazil, Chile, China, South Africa, Venezuela
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Project
Improving Immunization toward Elimination of Measles and Rubella in WPRO countries
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Expanding policy and programs for measles and rubella immunization in WHO/WPRO countries to match WPRO goal of measles elimination in the region. Focus is on Japan and China as key leaders. . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Cooper, Louis
| | Locations
China, Japan
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Project
International Program on Population Aging in Developing Countries
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Program for Policy Development and Capacity Building On Population Aging In Developing Countries is a joint program of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Columbia's . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Nizamuddin, Mohammad
| | Location
United States of America
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Project
International Training Program in Epidemiology of AIDS
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Training Program in Epidemiology related to AIDS provides pre- and postdoctoral training in epidemiology for health scientists, clinicians and allied health workers from South . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Abdool Karim, Salim S
| | Locations
South Africa, United States of America
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Project
Lecture 1: 'Social dimensions of care givin in chronic illness for the elderly' Lecture 2: 'Principles and applications of social gerontology in developing societies'
Mailman School of Public Health
International Workshop on Preparing for Aging Societies: Meeting New Challenges of Health, Well-being and Poverty in Developing Countries. . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Raveis, Victoria H.
| | Location
United States of America
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Project
Maintenance and Stimulation of Projects in Support of the Seven Medical Schools, and the Biomedical Research Agencies, in Taiwan.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Maintenance and Stimulation of Projects in Support of the Seven Medical Schools, and the Biomedical Research Agencies, in Taiwan. . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Pierson Jr, Richard
| | Location
Republic of China (Taiwan)
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Project
Manganese Occupational Exposure: Biological Monitoring, Prevention, and Mechanism Investigation
Mailman School of Public Health
Manganese has replaced lead as an additive to gasoline in Europe and North America. Environmental exposure to this toxic metal has recently become a major public-health concern. Occupational exposure . . . More »
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China
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Project
Medical and Educational Support for the Republic of Armenia
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Helping health ministry in planning health-care and educational reforms and medical fellowships for Armenian physicians. Establishment of an English-language current-literature section in national . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Nercessian, Ohannes
| | Location
Armenia
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Project
Medical Care and Community Health in Rural Chiapas
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Hospital San Carlos is a sixty-bed rural hospital in the state of Chiapas. It is run by an order of Catholic nuns and cares for a mostly Mayan Indian population. In addition, the hospital is trying . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Capps, Linnea
| | Location
Mexico
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Project
MTCT-Plus Inititative
Mailman School of Public Health
Maternal-to-Child Transmission Plus builds on the efforts in Africa, rapidly expanding over the last several years, to prevent MTCT of HIV using a well-established package of low-cost and effective . . . More »
| | Project Leaders
Rosenfield, Allan, El-Sadr, Wafaa
| | Locations
Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia
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Project
NIEHS/EPA Superfund Basic Research Program: Health Effects and Geochemistry of Arsenic and Lead
Mailman School of Public Health
The primary goal of this program is to obtain new knowledge and to train multidisciplinary pre- and post-doctoral students regarding the bioavailability of soil lead in humans and the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Graziano, Joseph
| | Locations
Bangladesh, United States of America
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Project
Nutrition and Capacity Building: Critical Partners in Public Health and Clinical Interventions
Mailman School of Public Health
A two-week intensive Institute being offered
at Columbia University Medical Center in New
York City, focusing on the science and
application of nutrition, and the relationship
between nutrition and . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Bartley, Kellee
| | Location
United States of America
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Project
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Critical Care in Developing Countries: Dominican Republic
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Establishment of a five-year program for congenital cardiac surgery, education, and follow-up care in the Dominican Republic. . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Schechter, William
| | Location
Dominican Republic
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Project
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Critical Care in Developing Countries: Guatemala
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Congenital cardiac surgery in Guatemala. Establishment of programs for treatment, education and follow-up care. Five years of experience, over two hundred patients treated. A new center for children . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Schechter, William
| | Location
Guatemala
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Project
Postgraduate Medical Education: Program 1
College of Physicians and Surgeons
(1) Health-care and educational reforms.
(2) English-as-a-Second-Language courses for Armenian physicians
(3) Establishment of an English-language current-literature section in the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Housepian, Edgar
| | Location
Armenia
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Project
Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights
Mailman School of Public Health
The Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights seeks to integrate the new scholarship about sexuality into existing work and activism about gender, health, and human rights, as well . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Vance, Carole
| | Locations
India, Hong Kong, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, France, Canada, Mexico
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Project
Program with Profamilia to Establish Adolescent Health Centers
Mailman School of Public Health
Program with Profamilia to Establish Adolescent Health Centers. This collaborative initiative has established a new adolescent reproductive health clinic at Profamilia, Santo Domingo, which includes . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Cushman, Linda
| | Location
North America
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Project
Promoting Dual Protection among Rural South African Youth
College of Physicians and Surgeons
This project is developing and evaluating a school-based intervention to promote dual protection against HIV/STDs and pregnancy among South African youth in Kwazulu/Natal. . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Exner, Theresa
| | Location
South Africa
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Project
Putting Climate Predictions in the Service of Public Health in Mali
Mailman School of Public Health
The study is a collaboration of the Mailman School of Public Health and Earth Institute of Columbia University, involving team members from CIESIN and IRI. Columbia University is partnered with the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Findley, Sally
| | Location
Mali
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Project
Social Movements and HIV/AIDS in Brazil
Mailman School of Public Health
This ethnographic research project is the first that examines HIV/AIDS organizing outside of the United States as a form of social movement. In-depth interviewing of AIDS activists, researchers and . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Parker, Richard
| | Location
Brazil
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Project
Surgery for Hydrocephalus and Spinal Dysraphism
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Yearly one-week surgical mission to Guatemala to treat infants and children with hydrocephalus as well as various open and closed neural tube defects. This was the fourth consecutive year in going . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Feldstein, Neil
| | Location
Guatemala
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Project
The Access Project
Mailman School of Public Health
The Access Project for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was founded with the overall goal of aiding deserving countries to acquire the financing they need to implement . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Ruxin, Joshua
| | Locations
Rwanda, Nigeria
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Project
The Brazilian Model for HIV / AIDS Prevention and Control: Analyzing its Components and Assessing its Transferability
Mailman School of Public Health
The on-going
project: The
"Brazilian
Model" for
HIV/AIDS
Prevention and
Control:
Analyzing its
. . . More »
| | Project Leader
Parker, Richard
| | Location
Brazil
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Project
The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health
Mailman School of Public Health
The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health, established by the Department of Sociomedical Sciences in 2001, promotes research and training activities on the social and cultural dimensions of . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Parker, Richard
| | Locations
Brazil, United States of America, Dominican Republic, Peru
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Project
The Extended Child and Adolescent Mental Health Public Delivery System in Brazil: Dimensions of Exclusion
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The goal of this project is to design a
methodology to describe how child mental
health service delivery has been occuring in
Brazil. A comparative pilot study will be
conducted in 5 sites from a . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Duarte, Christiane
| | Location
Brazil
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Project
The International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP)
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) brings together diverse initiatives aimed at addressing the HIV epidemic. Within ICAP, the MTCT-Plus Initiative, the Multicountry . . . More »
| | Project Leader
El-Sadr, Wafaa
| | Locations
Africa, Asia, Central America/Caribbean
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Project
The International Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavorial Studies
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Core of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies is a resource for the development of international research initiatives by HIV Center investigators working in . . . More »
| | Project Leaders
Parker, Richard, Stein, Zena
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Brazil, Namibia, South Africa, United States of America
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Project
The International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy
Mailman School of Public Health
The International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy (IWGSSP) was constituted as a global forum composed of researchers and activists from a wide range of countries and regions of the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Parker, Richard
| | Locations
Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Spain, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Project
The MacroHealth Initiative
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
The overall objective is to deliver strategic expertise to low-income countries for scaling up health expenditures by government and donors in order to fill serious gaps in the provision of essential . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Ruxin, Joshua
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Rwanda, India, China, Ethiopia
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Project
The Micro-Credit and Health Project
Mailman School of Public Health
The Micro-Credit and Health Project explores the influence of group-based micro-credit in Matlab, Bangladesh, on socioeconomic and gender inequities in health. This cohort study involves researchers . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Adams, Alayne
| | Location
Bangladesh
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Project
The Multicountry Columbia Antiretroviral Program (MCAP)
Mailman School of Public Health
A consortium led by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health received a $125 million five-year cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the . . . More »
| | Project Leader
El-Sadr, Wafaa
| | Location
Africa
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Project
The New York Bioscape: Protecting Biodiversity and Health in a Human/Natural Landscape of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
The New York Bioscape initiative brings together NYC metropolitan scientists, health professionals, educators, and civic leaders to conserve biodiversity and ensure the region?s long-term ecological . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Koontz, Fred
| | Location
United States of America
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Project
The Right to Play (RTP) Research Collaboration
Mailman School of Public Health
The Right to Play (RTP) Research Collaboration partners faculty at the Mailman School with RTP (formerly known as Olympic Aid), an athlete-driven, humanitarian nongovernmental organization that works . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Adams, Alayne
| | Locations
Africa, Asia
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Project
The University Technical Assistance Program (UTAP)
Mailman School of Public Health
With funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University Technical Assistance Program (UTAP) provides technical assistance for the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention, . . . More »
| | Project Leader
El-Sadr, Wafaa
| | Locations
Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Africa, Mozambique
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Project
The World Initiative
Mailman School of Public Health
Since the beginning of 2004, a small group of
researchers in Child Epidemiology under the
direction of Christina Hoven, have been
reviewing vast amounts of social, political
and economic information . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Hoven, Christina
| | Location
United States of America
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Project
Training Service Providers in Dual Protection Counseling in China
College of Physicians and Surgeons
In response to China's concurrent HIV and STI epidemics, the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute / Columbia University and the Nanjing College . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Mantell, Joanne
| | Location
China
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Project
Transnational Collaborative to Address the HIV/AIDS Needs of the Dominican Communities in New York City and Dominican Republic
This program seeks to strengthen HIV/AIDS/AIDS prevention, primary care, and treatment infrastructure to better address the needs of Dominicans by establishing an applied research and service . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Unknown
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North America
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Project
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)/World Health Organization (WHO) Services Taskforce on Children's Mental Health
College of Physicians and Surgeons
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
Presidential Program on Child Mental health
has developed a Comprehensive System for Child
and Adolescent Mental Health consisting of
three programs: Community . . . More »
| | Project Leader
Murray, Laura
| | Locations
United States of America, China, Russian Federation (Asia), Brazil, Lebanon, Israel
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