Julien Teitler, PhD

Julien Teitler is Professor of Social Work. His research focuses on social, structural, and policy effects on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations, with a focus on reproductive and infant health. He also conducts research on measurement and methodological challenges in survey research and has been contributing to the development and implementation of the Future of Families Study, one of the longest ongoing birth cohort studies in the United States, since its inception. He is currently leading the recruitment of the third-generation cohort for that study. Teitler has held numerous leadership positions at Columbia, including being one of the founding members of the Columbia Population Research Center and leading its Computing and Methodology Core, chairing the Morningside Institute Review Board (IRB), and serving as Senior Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs at the School of Social Work.

Teitler obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a multidisciplinary scholar whose research has been published in leading journals of Sociology, Epidemiology, Medicine, Public Health, and Social Work.

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