Cornell MPH Assistant Professor, Dr. Charley Willison recently published a new paper in World Medical & Health Policy examining the drivers of governmental response to public health emergencies. COVID-19 is not the first, and will not be the last public health emergency that we face. Governmental response to public health emergencies…
Dr. Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Cornell MPH Program, along with Raffael Heiss, Madeleine Waser, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl examined the European response to the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. The team of global researchers recently published their technical report for the European Observatory on Health Systems…
Since its inception, the MPH Program has been dedicated to working hand-in-hand with public health organizations to support their needs. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed health departments across the state, national assessments showed that many public health agencies would benefit from more formal training and support. “It has long…
MPH Student Lakshman Balaji recently produced this post about Measels in New York. Measles in New York: One of the worst measles outbreaks of recent times is happening right now in New York. I wanted to figure out where the vaccination exemptions are happening, and used public data to create this…
Child safety seat checks April 28 Is your car seat really protecting your child? Find out at the child safety seat check offered by the Cornell University Police, April 28, 9 a.m.-noon, at the Cornell Grounds Shop, 307 Palm Road. Trained child passenger safety technicians will provide instruction in proper…
Michener Approximately 74 million people in the United States use Medicaid. But as assistant professor of government Jamila Michener recounts in her new book, “Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics,” there is no one Medicaid, but rather a patchwork of policies across states with differences even at the neighborhood…
ProvidedBelfer Research Building, Weill Cornell Medicine. Responses by workers and their advocates to challenges in the gig economy will be explored in an April 27-28 conference organized by The Worker Institute at Cornell ILR. Bringing together U.S. and European academics, union representatives, worker organizations and legal advocates, Workers’ Rights in…
Dave Burbank/University PhotographyAnkur Singh, left, works in his lab with doctoral student Sungwoong Kim. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that is diagnosed in the U.S. more than 70,000 times annually, arises from overly proliferating immune cells within the body’s lymph nodes, which are connected to a network of lymph vessels through which…
The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is offering funding for the Cornell teaching community to implement new projects that will facilitate challenging, vibrant and reflective learning experiences for undergraduates. All faculty and full-time instructors engaged in teaching at Cornell are invited to submit proposals exploring new and emerging tools and…
Robert Barker/University Photography Nadine Strossen, right, discusses hate speech April 10 during a panel discussion with Sherry Colb and Jeremy Waldron. Two pre-eminent legal scholars agree that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment under certain circumstances. But their opinions diverge on how most effectively to reduce hate speech…