Audrey Baker is the Manager of Applied Learning & Evaluation in the Cornell MPH Program. She is a double alumna of Cornell University, receiving her BS and MPA from the College of Human Ecology. Audrey’s interest in public health began after completing Cornell’s Biology and Society Program. “I graduated in…
Dr. Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health along with a team of researchers from Europe analyzed the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in France, Israel, Italy and Spain and their impact on health and economic outcomes in their new article published in the journal Health…
Since our Program’s first year, MPH students, faculty, and staff have helped build coalitions with local agencies aiming to improve access to healthy food and education for youth and families in communities surrounding Cornell. Students have conducted needs assessments, written grant proposals, and designed and implemented evaluation plans for Universal…
Dr. Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health examined the Consequences of populist radical right (PRR) Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy in her new article published in the journal Government & Opposition. The article examines populist radical right in Austrian and Italian…
While training in social sciences in college, Dr. Karla Hanson knew she was interested in engaged learning—“except we didn’t even have the language for it at that time,” she remembers. After a job writing grant proposals for a community health center, she went back to school for a PhD in…
At first thought, forensic pathology may not seem like public health. Working in a coroner’s office in her hometown, however; Maura Benner could see the connections. “A lot of the problems we saw can be explained with the social determinants of health,” she says. She realized that autopsies represented “so…
Dr. Katie Fiorella is an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health and Section Chief for the Food Systems & Health concentration in the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. She received both her MPH and PhD from the University of California, Berkley, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow…
“Feed the world” might be an over-simplified pop-song lyric, but Dr. Elizabeth Fox, Cornell ’09, ’16, is working hard to explore the complexities of the concept. Dr. Fox joined the MPH Program in 2019, with a focus in food systems and health. More specifically, Fox’s research tackles the real-world issues…
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…
“I’m most interested in alleviating systems of oppression,” says Dr. Charley Willison, who joined the MPH Program faculty this January, and whose research seeks to understand how policy and politics can improve outcomes for the “overlapping and co-occurring” issues of homelessness, substance use disorders, and disaster response. In public health…