Mount Sinai Global Health
Mount Sinai Global Health is a new institution-wide interdisciplinary program at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Headquartered in New York City and led by Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSC, Dean for Global Health, the program works to improve the health of people around the world by building global partnerships in research, education, and patient care – in turn creating a forum for collaboration among the school’s students, physicians, scientists, and trainees interested and involved in global health.
The goals of the program are to:
- Reduce infant and child mortality
- Reduce deaths among women in pregnancy and childbirth
- Control the global spread of infectious diseases and chronic diseases
- Prevent diseases caused by the global spread of toxic chemicals
Find out more about the educational initiatives and programs going on within Mount Sinai Global Health.
Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, is Dean for Global Health. He is also Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, the Ethel H. Wise Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Children's Environmental Health Center. Read more