Maternal Health

Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University’s nineteenth president in 2002. Under his leadership, Columbia stands again at the very top rank of great research universities, distinguished...

An internationally recognized expert and clinician, Dr. Elaine Abrams has over 30 years of experience in comprehensive care and treatment for HIV-infected pregnant women, children and their families.

Angela Doyinsola Aina, MPH is the Co-Director and Research Lead for the Black Mamas Matter Alliance. Aina has over 14 years of public health experience, working in different capacities...

Heidi L. Allen, MSW, PhD is an Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, and is a nationally recognized expert on Medicaid policy.

Michael Leslie Amilcar is the CEO of Cook Ross Inc., a consulting firm based in Silver Spring, Maryland specializing in diversity, inclusion, leadership development, and organizational change management.

Erin Anastasi’s extensive career in maternal/newborn health and human rights spans projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She rose from Technical Specialist...

Ann Blanc, PhD is Vice President of Social and Behavioral Science Research at the Population Council. Under her leadership the Population Council is increasing investments into rigorous...

Biography current as of January 29, 2019

Dr. Sara Casey, Assistant Professor, focuses on using sound data collection and analysis to improve the availability and quality of sexual and reproductive health services in countries...

Christa Christakis is the Executive Director of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District II, a non-profit organization representing board certified physicians...

Cathryn Christensen is a family physician and the Clinical Partnerships Director of Village Health Works in Burundi. Christensen’s clinical and public health work focuses on community-based...

Mary D'Alton, MD specializes in high-risk Maternal-Fetal Medicine, with the majority of her practice focusing on patients with high-risk pregnancies due to complex maternal or fetal conditions.

Jamie Daw, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is a quantitative health services researcher whose...

Etiebet has two decades of experience improving healthcare outcomes for vulnerable populations and transforming healthcare delivery at the frontlines. As the Lead and Executive Director...

Findley focuses on community health, and specifically on promoting healthy communities and healthy children through multi-pronged intervention involving community health workers (CHW).

Freedman directs the Mailman School’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program, a global program of research, policy analysis, and technical support that, since 1999, has...

Avril Haines was the Deputy Director of Columbia World Projects from 2017-2020. She now serves as director of national intelligence in the Biden administration.

Ira Hillman leads the parenting and early childhood portfolio for the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust (EFCT), whose mission is to help people get along better.

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His 2013 book, "Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time," received the Bancroft...

Nicholas Lemann was the director of Columbia World Projects from 2017 through February 2021. He directs Columbia Global Reports, a book publishing venture that commissions reporting...

Originally trained as a clinical psychologist, in 2000 Monk completed her postdoctoral research studies in the Psychobiological Sciences at Columbia University via a National Institutes...

After 13 years as cohost of the flagship news magazine "Morning Edition," Montagne joined NPR's Investigative Unit to collaborate with ProPublica reporter Nina Martin on the investigative series, "Lost Mothers.

Moran is working on measurement, monitoring, and evaluation of maternal and newborn health. She has over twenty years of experience in applied and operations research, program monitoring...

Over the past 20 years, Moresky has collaborated with governments and local institutions to improve emergency care systems in resource-limited settings through technical assistance, implementation...

Mulugeta was born and raised in metro Atlanta and grew up in a large immigrant family. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Science degree...

Myers area of expertise is in understanding the structural and material behavior of biological soft tissues with a specific focus on the female reproductive system and the biomechanics of pregnancy.

Appointed Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services in January 2016, Palacio is in charge of coordinating transformation efforts across the City’s public health and healthcare system...

Kenneth Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University. He taught Political Science at the University of Chicago from 1965–1982, and for shorter stints was...

Rauh is a developmental epidemiologist (Harvard School of Public Health, ScD) and social worker (Smith College School for Social Work, MSW) by training, whose work focuses on the long-term...

Prior to joining GE Healthcare in 2004, Schaeffler served as Senior Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs for the American Health Care Association, and as Senior Vice President for DaVita.

Nik is the Deputy Director of Columbia World Projects. He previously served as the Counselor and Chief Speechwriter for Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Tatonetti trained in mathematics and molecular biology at Arizona State University before receiving his PhD in biomedical informatics in 2012 from Stanford University.

Kristen Underhill, JD, DPhil is an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Her expertise is in both law and public health, including legal research, survey methods, and qualitative data collection.

Welch has been a pioneer in the treatment of mother-child relational health for over 40 years. Her decades of clinical observation have led to a new paradigm employing mother-child co-regulatory vs.