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Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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Grants to Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

  • $200,000Active Strategy

    2012 (Inactive Grant)

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK — This grant provides supplemental support to the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society to deepen its work on aging as it relates both to immigration and to housing. The MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society, which is housed at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, is an interdisciplinary group of scholars who collaborate on an interrelated set of conceptual, analytical and experimental projects that revolve around the core challenges and opportunities facing America as it becomes an aging society.

  • $500,000Active Strategy

    2011 (Duration 2 years)

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK — In support of activities to promote accountability in maternal health (over two years).

  • $3,625,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Duration 4 years)

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK — To support the Research Network on an Aging Society (over four years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health $4,325,000 between 2009 and 2012.