Center Director: Kathan Reddy (kvr2112@columbia.edu)

This semester, the Healthcare Center’s first project will be putting together a digital “COVID On-Campus Survival Guide,” to support students who are getting sick and unsure of what to do — namely figuring out course accommodations, food, medication, COVID tests, etc. We’ll be including template emails for professors, recommendations for where and when to get food and supplies, free NYC testing resources and more to help one another as students inevitably get sick this fall. Beyond this, future Healthcare Center initiatives will include working with Columbia admin to reform Title IX policy, add mental health hotlines to the back of student ID’s, and improve the off-campus referral process for students seeking long-term mental health treatment. Down the line, we may also partner with the Mailman School of Public Health and community groups in Harlem for local outreach, or even research ramifications of AI on health systems.