Growing up in Ghana, Osei Kwadwo Boateng experienced disparities in rural healthcare infrastructure firsthand. “Someone living in a rural area might walk ten miles or more to a city, just hoping to see a doctor,” he explains. After losing his grandmother—which he says could have been prevented with better access…
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…
A nonprofit and researchers from Boston University and Cornell University will study the landscape of homelessness public policy and its consequences Numerous government agencies at all levels make public policies that are influential to the well-being of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. But, the way these decisions get…
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…
In partnership with Dr. Onyinye Balogun in Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Amelia Greiner Safi (Public and Ecosystem Health), MPH students Jennifer Gil and Nyaradzo Sirewu, and Global Health student Hannah Lee have launched their nation-wide study to understand experiences of Black patients with gynecologic cancers, funded by…
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…