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.…
When Dr. Lorraine Francis, associate professor of practice with the MPH Program, arrived in Ithaca in 2019, she brought to the Cornell community 18 years of experience in Caribbean public health, including tracking disease outbreaks and helping Caribbean nations prepare for and respond to public health emergencies. Last spring, Francis…
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…
“Cornell’s combination of public health and ecosystem health is a perfect fit—it marries all the elements of my research into one,” says Dr. Raina Plowright, a world-renowned ecologist and epidemiologist who joined Cornell in 2022 as a Radical Collaboration hire, Cornell Atkinson Scholar, and MPH Program professor in the new…
Since the age of five, Dr. Kevin Cummings knew he wanted to become a veterinarian. He grew up playing with his dogs and watching birds outside of Buffalo, New York. Pursuing his dream years later at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and then in clinical practice, he was always…
Graduate Students in Public Health (GraPH) is a new organization founded by first-year MPH students to help fellow Cornell students build careers in public health and healthcare industries. The organization was founded with the goal of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, supporting MPH graduate education, and advocating for public health students and…
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,…
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…