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Columbia University Salutes Allan Rosenfield for 20 Years as Dean of the Mailman School
Dr. Allan Rosenfield, left, with Diana Taylor, NY
State
banking superintendant, and actor, Richard Gere.
In June, Columbia University celebrated Allan Rosenfield's 20 years as Dean of the Mailman School and his pioneering work to advance health and human rights worldwide through innovative programs in reproductive health, maternal mortality, and the treatment of HIV-infected adults and children.
Columbia President Lee Bollinger hosted a tribute dinner for Dr. Rosenfield on June 7 and, the following day, a World Leaders Forum symposium on some of the key public health challenges Dr. Rosenfield has tackled over his 40 year career. Given the far-reaching impact the dean has had on the School, the field of public health, and on countless individuals, combined attendance at the events drew thousands of friends, family, and colleagues from around the world.
In a special announcement from the podium the evening of the dinner, President Bollinger shared the news that the University Trustees had resolved to name the building at 722 West 168th Street in honor of Dr. Rosenfield. The building houses the majority of the Mailman School's departments, centers, and programs. Said President Bollinger, "Over the last three decades at Columbia, Allan has not only inspired and trained generations of public health leaders, he has helped define what a school of public health should be. Having the Mailman School reside in the Allan Rosenfield building is a living legacy to what Allan himself has built here-and to the impact he's had on people from Washington Heights to Asia, Africa and Latin America. We are proud and lucky that his name will now always be an essential part of this university."
Pictured from left: Bill Clinton, Allan Rosenfield, and Lee Bollinger
Leading the tributes during the dinner were UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; Richard Gere, founder of Healing the Divide and an active campaigner for AIDS awareness in India; and Phyllis Mailman, wife of the late Joseph L. Mailman, for whom the Mailman School of Public Health is named.
The June 8 symposium, "Taking a Stand: Challenges and Controversies in Reproductive Health, Maternal Mortality and HIV/AIDS," featured a series of panel discussions with international public health experts and policy leaders, including former President Bill Clinton. Other participants included Mailman School colleagues Wafaa El-Sadr and Lynn Freedman (El-Sadr directs the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, while Freedman directs the Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program); Seth Berkley, who heads the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; William Foege, former executive director of the Carter Center and the epidemiologist who spearheaded the campaign to eliminate smallpox in the 1970s (now a fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa; ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts; former president of Ireland and UN human rights leader Mary Robinson, now president of the Ethical Globalization Initiative and a part-time professor at Columbia; and Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia's Earth Institute and special advisor to Kofi Annan on the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
For more information about these events and other tributes to Dr. Rosenfield, please visit the special webpage created for the Dean on the Mailman School website where readers can access videos from the dinner and the symposium and view a special video tribute created by Dr. Rosenfield's brother, Jim Rosenfield.
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