Africa

United States of America

Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Sociomedical Sciences

Columbia University, New York, New York

sef5@columbia.edu

Department of Population & Family Health
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University
60 Haven Ave, B2
New York, New York 10032 USA

phone: 212 304 5790
fax: 212 305 7024

Mali.

Dr. Sally Findley's work is dedicated to finding creative strategies to
expand opportunities for the disadvantaged, particularly mothers and their
children, and most notably, strategies that facilitate the adoption of
improved health promotion practices or increase adherence to recommended
treatment programs, such as daily medications for asthma. Her work grows
out of the needs of her partner organizations, and currently includes
childhood asthma and immunizations, and child survival in Mali.

Education:
Ph.D., Brown University, 1986
B.A., Reed College, 1970

"Putting Climate in the Service of Public Health": This project applies
climate forecasts from the Earth Institute (Columbia University) to
improve the timing of preventive public health activities in order to
cost-effectively reduce childhood illnesses. This project is a
collaboration with the National Medical School of Mali and the Niono
District Health Office, and we are tracking the monthly variation in
childhood illnesses in 11 communities of Niono, a partially irrigated
district in Mali. The program works through the IMCI program's clinical
and community components, and uses a calendar approach to organize the
triggering of climate/seasonal dependent recommendations for enhanced
public health activities.

"Season Smart": Dr. Findley directs a pilot test of a program to tailor
the UNICEF/WHO child health program, the integrated management of
childhood illnesses, to the seasonal variability of childhood illnesses in
the Sahel. The pilot project is being implemented in the district of
Barouelli, Segou, Mali.

Selected recent publications on Mali:

2009. With Daniel C. Medina et al.
"Seasonality of childhood infectious diseases in Niono, Mali," Global
public health. 4 (December 2009): 1-14.

2007. With Daniel C. Medina et al.
"Forecasting non-stationary diarrhea, acute respiratory infection, and
malaria time-series in Niono, Mali." PloS one [Public Library of
Science one] 2(11): p. e1181.
2007.

maternal care ; child care ; recommended treatment programs.