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…
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…
Dr. Irene Sumbele joined the MPH Program as a visiting scholar in 2019, coming to Cornell from the conflict zone of Cameroon as an Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow. Last year, she was named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar for her work in “pursuing health equity…
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…
Two Cornell MPH students, Avni Patel, MPH ’22, and Seb Loonen, MPH ’22, have been selected to attend the Cornell in Washington (CIW) program for the 2022 Spring semester. As students in the program, they will spend time in the nation’s capital learning about the intersection of policy and public…
Dr. Casey Cazer, Cornell ’16, ’20, a veterinarian and assistant professor in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, has mentored three MPH students in applied research projects that use veterinary clinical data and machine learning to explore antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Using a One Health perspective, they focus on…
Five years ago, the Cornell MPH Program was in its infancy and looking for faculty and staff to bring this Program from an idea to reality. The first hire the MPH Program made was Audrey Baker, now Manager of Applied Learning and Evaluation. Audrey, a graduate of Cornell’s biology and…
Growing up in South Africa, Anke Kotze was aware of public health crises every day. Droughts and fires, HIV and tuberculosis epidemics, rationed electricity, and a failing healthcare system shaped her worldview. “I realized I was in a position to make change,” reflects Kotze, who came to Cornell to learn…
Cornell MPH Assistant Professor, Dr. Charley Willison and University of Michigan PhD student, Amanda Mauri recently co-authored a paper in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health that looks at urban homelessness in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations. Willison and Mauri evaluate the presence of formal…