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Dr. Claudia Passos-Ferreira Delivers TED Talk: Inside the Mind of a Newborn Baby

October 24, 2025

Photo Credit: TED

Bioethics Professor Claudia Passos-Ferreira delivered a recent TED Talk entitled “Inside the mind of a newborn baby.”

Dr. Passos-Ferreira shared groundbreaking research that measured

Bioethics Professor Claudia Passos-Ferreira delivered a recent TED Talk entitled “Inside the mind of a newborn baby.”

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GPH Announces 2017-2018 Recipients of the Ellen C. Gstalder Memorial Scholarship

November 15, 2017

Extending Congratulations to the Ellen Gstalder Memorial Scholarship 2017-2018 Honorees

Cover Photo: Pictured left to right, Tanya Braune, Adefunke Ajenikoko, and Alomi Malkan.

Once again, we honor

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Cross Continental Experience Blog: Ode to the Okada

November 6, 2017

Ode to the Okada

The Cross Continental Experience Blog by Rory Curtin, CCMPH Student

November 6, 2017

Okadas are the motorcycle taxis which will get you from A to B in Accra without waiting for two

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Message from Dean Cheryl Healton: First Advisory Board Meeting

Public Health Policy and Management
October 23, 2017

Commencement of the First Advisory Board Meeting.

Dear Colleagues and Students,

The College of Global Public Health (GPH) is growing faster than ever thanks to tenacity and wise advisement. On

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Student Highlight: Mehreen Arif

October 23, 2017

GPH MPH student Mehreen Arif shares her fight for health and human rights at the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights Symposium.

Eyes set on the well-being of refugees and migrants, Mehreen

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Faculty Feature: Dr. David Abramson

Social And Behavioral Sciences
October 23, 2017
Dr. David Abramson, a man whose efforts in disaster science have not gone unnoticed, received the American College of Epidemiology’s Translation of Disaster Epidemiology Into Public Health Award on ...
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Cross Continental Experience Blog: Visitors From New York

October 23, 2017

Visitors From New York

The Cross Continental Experience Blog by Rory Curtin, CCMPH Student

October 23th, 2017

Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala, accompanied by NYU doctoral candidate, Temitope Ojo, spent

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Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee gives Inaugural William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture “Are We Ready to Edit Our Genomes?”

Bioethics
October 11, 2017

On October 10, 2017, The Greenwall Foundation and The Center for Bioethics at NYU GPH presented the Inaugural William C. Stubing Memorial Lecture by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee titled “Are We Ready to

Are We Ready to Edit Our Genomes? by Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, DPhil

Q&A with Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, DPhil

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Cross Continental Experience Blog: Familiar Faces

October 9, 2017

Familiar Faces

The Cross Continental Experience Blog by Rory Curtin, CCMPH Student

October 9th, 2017

Two men sit outside of wide wooden gates. One dependably holds an old radio inches from his ear

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Cross Continental Experience Blog: Chale

September 24, 2017

Chale

The Cross Continental Experience Blog by Rory Curtin, CCMPH Student

September 24th, 2017

*pronounced: “Chaa-lay" (A common Ghanaian term used in many contexts, usually in place of words such

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