The National Centre in HIV Social Research offers a postgraduate program in Health, Sexuality and Culture. The program is guided by a social paradigm that understands persons and communities as social beings. It is designed to provide the empirical skills necessary to participate in the global fields of sex and drug research, and to equip students with an understanding of critical debates in social theories of sex, drugs and the politics of health and medicine. It is this mix of practical empirical skills and critical inquiry that makes the Health, Sexuality and Culture program unique.

This short course aims to provide participants with the knowledge to critique gender approaches to health and development and the skills to be able to plan programmes which are gender sensitive in their design.
Although the focus is largely on women, the construction of male gender and its implications for health and development are also examined. Participatory approaches for collecting and analysing data on gender are described, ensuring participants are able to combine qualitative with quantitative data as a baseline for planning interventions.

The Department of Sociomedical Sciences also offer a Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Gender, Sexuality and Health, leading to a Ph.D. degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The fellowship is designed to prepare students for research and teaching careers in gender and sexuality.

The Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia offers a Masters of Public Health in Sexuality and Health. “This program is one of the first of its kind that provides public health students with the conceptual and practical skills necessary to identify, analyze and address health issues connected to sexuality within a global context. These skills include the design, implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and advocacy efforts to enhance sexual health. Program graduates will be likely to work in organizations that address sexual health exclusively or as part of a broader agenda. The Sexuality and Health Track is an interdepartmental program, jointly created and delivered by the Departments of Population and Family Health and of Sociomedical Sciences.”