Dr. Amie Patchen has been teaching for over 16 years. After receiving her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, she joined the Cornell MPH Program as a postdoctoral associate, where she currently teaches One Health and Public Health Foundations I for our first-year students, and the Integrated Learning…
Lara Parrilla, MPH, RD, was first exposed to the field of public health through an undergraduate internship with Cornell University Cooperative Extension in NYC. “It was through this experience that I developed an understanding of and respect for the importance concept of building individual and community capacity to identify community…
Dr. Karla Hanson began her career in public health as director of planning and development at a federally qualified primary care health center. This experience led her to pursue graduate school in health policy at the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, where she researched policies and trends regarding…
Dr. Kevin Cummings is an associate professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health. He received both his PhD and DVM degrees from Cornell University, and has been teaching epidemiology and public health to students for the last 20 years. Dr. Cummings’ research focuses on foodborne pathogens, antimicrobial resistance,…
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. 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…
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. Amelia Greiner Safi joined the MPH Program in 2017, adding to her 13 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Safi received her MS in Communication at Cornell (with a focus on risk and science communication) and her PhD in social and behavioral sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public…
Michelle Falkenbach, a Postdoctoral Associate working with Assistant Professor Dr. Willison recently released her book volume on health policy. The Populist Radical Right and Health includes case studies from around the world about how these political trends are affecting health and public health policy, the influence on covid-19, and what…
Gary Whittaker studied Biochemistry and completed a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Leeds (UK) before moving to the US to do post-doctoral studies in cell biology at Yale University Medical School. Gary came to Cornell in 1996, where he has established a research program in virology, focusing on…