Lisa Rosen-Metsch '90GS

Expertise

Nontraditional student education; medical sociology; epidemiology; HIV/AIDS prevention

Biography

Lisa Rosen-Metsch '90GS is the 9th Dean of the Columbia School of General Studies. She is the first alumna to serve as Dean of GS. Previously, she was the Chair and Stephen Smith Professor, Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health. Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch is a medical sociologist and an internationally recognized scholar whose work has focused on the social determinants of health with special focus on access to care for persons living with HIV and substance use disorders 

For the past two decades, her research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has resulted in over 270 publications in high impact journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Addiction, and the American Journal of Public Health. Mentoring and teaching has always been a high priority for Dean Rosen-Metsch and she has won numerous teaching awards and co-directs a NIH-funded training program with the Columbia School of Social Work.

Dean Rosen-Metsch teaches two undergraduate courses: “AIDS and US Society” in the Sociology Department and (2) “Philanthropy and Just Society” that she co-teaches with Professor Geraldine Downey in the Department of Psychology.

In her 8 years as Dean, Columbia GS has significantly increased fundraising for student financial aid scholarships, created and launched new international and community-college dual-degree programs, and created new initiatives focused on social justice and women student veterans.