Columbia University Health Services

Alice! Health Promotion Program seeks to make the campus healthier by connecting students with information and resources, cultivating healthy attitudes and behaviors, and fostering a culture that values and supports a healthy community.

Go Ask Alice! is the world’s leading health question and answer Internet service. On line since 1993, Go Ask Alice! answers anonymously-posed questions on everything from acne and anti-depressants, to meditation and masturbation. New Q&As are posted each week and you can always search the site’s archives of more than 3,000 past entries. 

Get Alice! in Your Box is a free weekly e-mail providing you with links to the new Go Ask Alice! Q&A titles, plus occasional news you can use to meet your personal and work health goals. Click on a title and you’ll go directly and anonymously to that new Q&A. 

Stressbustersare teams of students who deliver neck and back rubs for total relaxation. You can get them for free at select CU public events, and you can bring them to your office or department for meetings and events. Wind Down Wednesdays are now a weekly fixture at Columbia, students and staff can wind down with free Stressbusters stress breaks at the Wien Hall Main Lounge on Wednesdays during the Fall and Spring semesters. There’s a little bit of heaven in Wien Hall Main Lounge every Wednesday from 12–1 pm. 

The 100 m.i.l.e. Club offers you an online, interactive opportunity to learn about, design, and track your personal fitness activities. The program, which allows participants to set personal exercise goals and record progress throughout the semester, is open to all Columbia students, faculty, staff, and alumni. m.i.l.e. stands for “minutes I logged exercising.” The goal is to spend at least 100 minutes per week being physically active.

Alice! Health Promotion Program provides presentations regarding student health data.