哥伦比亚大学校长李·布林格今晨致信全校师生,任命校级教授Wafaa EI-Sadr为哥伦比亚大学全球事务常务副校长,主管哥大全球中心网络
Wafaa El-Sadr教授现领导哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院全球健康倡议(Global Health Initiative)、ICAP研究中心和哥伦比亚大学世界项目 (Columbia World Projects)。图源:Eileen Barroso
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Wafaa El-Sadr博士是世界著名的传染病医生和流行病学家,毕生致力于解决美国以及全球范围内的公共卫生挑战与危机,并让数以百万计的人受益。

心怀哥大为世界带来积极影响的愿景,El-Sadr博士将为哥大全球中心网络以及其他全球项目的推进带来她积累多年的专业知识和无与伦比的国际视野。
哥大全球中心网络正在蓬勃发展——目前九个中心已经遍布四大洲,还将会继续拓展。
作为哥伦比亚大学重要的区域枢纽,哥大全球中心服务教授的学术研究,为学生提供拓展国际视野的机会,链接并加强哥大与全球人才的交流与合作。从成立初期,哥大全球中心一直关注并致力于应对全球性议题,包括气候变化、贫困、难民危机和新冠大流行。

展望未来,在El-Sadr教授关怀包容且富有战略的领导下,哥大全球中心将更紧密地协调哥伦比亚大学的全球事业,整合更多全球倡议,继续支持哥大在世界范围内的研究和学术工作。
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
I write to share that I have appointed Wafaa El-Sadr as Executive Vice President for Columbia Global. She is currently the Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Chair of Global Health, Founder and Director of ICAP, Director of Columbia World Projects (CWP), and a University Professor—all roles she will maintain while also overseeing Columbia Global, which will bring together CWP, the Columbia Global Centers, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and other global initiatives.
Dr. El-Sadr is a world-renowned infectious disease physician and epidemiologist who has devoted her life to addressing public health challenges in our own country and around the world. I wrote in January 2021 to announce my appointment of Wafaa as Director of Columbia World Projects, an initiative that has institutionalized Columbia’s commitment to contributing to solving global problems, thereby advancing what I have named the Fourth Purpose of the University—our direct engagement with problems and challenges across the society, beyond our mission of teaching, research, and service. In that announcement, I summarized Wafaa’s remarkable leadership in the field of public health and across the globe, and her contributions to Columbia. Rather than restating all of her wonderful qualities and accomplishments here, I will simply say that millions upon millions have benefitted from Wafaa’s work, and we are inordinately fortunate to count her as a member of this University community. In her new and expanded role, Wafaa will bring to the leadership of our Global Centers and other global initiatives her unmatched global perspective, institutional expertise, and vision for Columbia’s positive impact in the world.
The Columbia Global Centers are thriving, with nine centers across four continents, and more to come. The mission of our Centers is to serve as the University’s physical and intellectual presence around the world—they facilitate and curate faculty work, provide educational opportunities for students, and connect us with people and ideas shaping our global society. From their inception, the Centers and their teams have been immersed in activities that address global challenges, from climate change and poverty to refugee crises and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under Wafaa’s thoughtful and strategic leadership, Columbia Global will more closely align some of the University’s key global initiatives including the Global Centers, CWP, and the highly regarded Institute for Ideas and Imagination, based at Reid Hall in Paris, France, which supports Columbia residential fellows to harness the power of the imagination in the formation and communication of ideas between scholars and creative artists. And, moving forward, Columbia Global will offer the opportunity to include other global initiatives under its umbrella and to support and expand the University’s global activities and presence.
I am deeply grateful to Wafaa for agreeing to serve the University in this expanded capacity. Please join me in congratulating her on this appointment.
Sincerely,
Lee C. Bollinger
哥伦比亚大学全球中心成立于2009年,由哥伦比亚大学校长李·布林格在全球九个城市发起设立。哥大全球中心网络致力于让全校师生在更广阔的范围内开展跨学科、跨地区的教学和研究,为迎接21世纪全球化所带来的挑战和机遇搭建一个重要的联动平台。
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