As an MPH student, Avalon Monti didn’t imagine one day using her public health skills to help prepare astronauts for future missions to Mars. Then, Monti saw an open position for an epidemiologist at NASA, and impressed the hiring team with the systems thinking skills she had developed at Cornell.…
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)’s website describes itself as “the world’s largest humanitarian network,” supporting over 192 countries and 14 million volunteers. IFRC’s program areas span disaster and climate crisis risk reduction, health and care, gender and youth inclusion, and building national capacities.…
Rohit Mashani has worked for the healthcare consulting company Veranex since graduating from the MPH Program. Veranex “provides end-to-end solutions” for clients developing new healthcare technologies, explains Manshani. According to its website, the company is a “MedTech conceptto- commercialization partner.” This means that Veranex has teams working with client companies…
Aly Trombitas never planned to be a nutritionist. Before coming to Cornell, she began her career with community nonprofits in food, farming, and environmental education. To take on more of a leadership role in the field, she knew she would need a master’s degree. When Trombitas found Cornell’s MPH Program,…
For children in high-poverty communities, school meals are often a critical source of nutrition, and can also help offset grocery budgets for low-income households. Responding to a need to address record low school meal program participation in Tompkins County, a team of Cornell MPH students and faculty partnered with Newfield…
When Nyaradzo Sirewu and Avni Patel saw that Cornell’s Center for Health Equity (CCHEq) was looking for MPH students to build and pilot training that would help anyone take action against racism, they jumped at the opportunity. “After the George Floyd killing, people were reaching out to CCHEq, asking how…
When Anabella Pinton was first looking into public health programs, she was drawn to Cornell’s unique epidemiology concentration. “The specific focus on infectious diseases was special and intriguing,” she remembers, especially with its emphasis on animals, agriculture, and the environment. She also appreciated the smaller program size “to make connections…
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…
Cornell MPH Professor Dr. Gary Whittaker and Qinghua Guo, Cornell MPH ’22, recently published a paper in Comparative Medicine that examines the underlying origins of zoonotic coronaviruses in bats. The paper, written with Cornell DVM Graduate Alison Stout and former postdoctoral associate Jean Millet, aims to understand where coronaviruses like…
When she applied to Cornell’s MPH Program, Jubi Lin was most curious about the One Health paradigm. “I always wanted to go into human medicine, but had never thought about how it was connected to all these sectors before,” she recalls. She was first drawn to public health after…