“The Cornell MPH Program is our longest partnership,” says Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD) program manager Emily Mader. NEVBD focuses on workforce training, applied research, and developing a community of practice network across 13 states in the Northeastern United States and the District of Columbia. Their…
In late spring of 2020, after campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group formed at Cornell to plan for the potential reopening of campus in the fall. “Reopening was predicated on understanding behavioral surveillance data,” says emergency preparedness and response expert Dr. Isaac Weisfuse, adjunct faculty with…
As unprecedented unemployment rates and disruptions in food supply chains have continued to unfold around the world, the pandemic has led to a substantial rise in food insecurity, which includes actual and perceived lack of access to nutritious food. In the United States and in New York State, record…
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…
Students Kellyann Baxendell and Victoria Montero qualified for the Emory Morningside Global Health Case after winning the Cornell competition last spring. Their winning case, “Measles Elimination and Nutritional Supplementation Program: The MEANS to an end of measles in Syria,” focused on empowering locals to distribute measles vaccines and nutrition packets…
As a Clinical Research Coordinator with the Solutions Science Lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Andreína Martin works with Latinx children and their Spanish-speaking families enrolled in clinical trials that measure nutrition and health outcomes. Her team’s work introduces children to interventions to positively impact their “weight loss…
When Emily McGraw joined the Learn Charter School Network in Chicago in January 2020, she had no idea how important her M.P.H. degree would prove to be. Before coming to Cornell, she has been a school principal in New York City, and now as Director of Curriculum and Instruction, she…
After graduating from the Cornell MPH program’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology track in May 2020, Shane Conyers began a PhD program in Epidemiology. In addition to a full roster of coursework in his first year at Emory University, Conyers is already involved in two of his own research projects there, one…
In his senior year of college, Kenny Escobar took a class on healthcare disparities that changed his trajectory. He wanted to make a difference in communities. “I’m glad I found out that public health was my path,” says Escobar. “The M.P.H. Program at Cornell was a great choice for me.”…
Caitlin Baumhart joined the MPH Program in January 2018, while working on her Master of Professional Studies in International Development after finishing 4 years in Tanzania with the Peace Corps. As a student studying in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology concentration, she quickly became immersed in work with the Northeast Regional…