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Department Chair, Epidemiology
Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-Director, Statistics and Epidemiology, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavior Studies (NYSPI)
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| Dr. Ezra Susser's primary research has been on the epidemiology of mental disorders, and on examining the role of early life experience in health and disease throughout the life course. His international collaborative birth cohort research program (The Imprints Center) seeks to uncover the causes of a broad range of disease and health outcomes, including psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and ADHD, obesity, cardiovascular disease, reproductive performance, and breast and ovarian cancers. Among the risk factors explored are prenatal exposures to infectious disease and toxic chemicals, childhood nutrition and environment, and genetics, as well as the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors. Dr. Susser has also focused on public health initiatives regarding HIV/AIDS throughout his career, both locally and internationally. His work has addressed the health of inner city populations, examining relationships between homelessness, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS. He has fostered development of international partnerships, focusing on collaborative research, training, and building public health infrastructure. He serves on the executive committee of the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and was a key player in the development of MTCT-Plus, which addresses the treatment and care of HIV-infected women, their partners and children in some of the world's poorest communities. Under his leadership Columbia is a participant in the National Institutes of Health Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP.)
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