Francine Cournos

Francine Cournos (born June 29, 1945) is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Cournos is also Principal Investigator of the Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies.

Early life Cournos was born on June 29, 1945, in New York City to Alexander and Muriel Cournos. Her father Alexander worked as a copyeditor for The New York Times.

Cournos received a BS from the City College of New York in 1967. She received an MD from the New York University School of Medicine in 1971.

Research Since 1983, Cournos has worked on "the interface of HIV and mental illness" which included publishing the first seroprevalence study to "document the elevated rates of HIV infection in people with severe mental illness." Cournos has also been Principal Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Project.

Annika Sweetland is working with Cournos on the subject of multimorbidities in Mozambique "to develop an integrated care strategy that has the potential to dramatically change care delivery and improve health outcomes."

Selected publications