Dr. Michelle Falkenbach, along with international colleagues, recently published a paper in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management that asks the question “Are health systems and their health workforce resilient in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic?” This article looks at the reactivity and proactivity of health systems,…
Dr. Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health along with a team of researchers from Europe analyzed the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in France, Israel, Italy and Spain and their impact on health and economic outcomes in their new article published in the journal Health…
Dr. Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health examined the Consequences of populist radical right (PRR) Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy in her new article published in the journal Government & Opposition. The article examines populist radical right in Austrian and Italian…
“I’m most interested in alleviating systems of oppression,” says Dr. Charley Willison, who joined the MPH Program faculty this January, and whose research seeks to understand how policy and politics can improve outcomes for the “overlapping and co-occurring” issues of homelessness, substance use disorders, and disaster response. In public health…
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…
Senior Adam Shelepak has been named the 2017 winner of the Cornell University Relations’ Campus-Community Leadership Award. The annual honor is presented to a graduating senior who has shown exceptional town-gown leadership and innovation. Among his many off-campus activities, Shelepak has served as chair of the Cornell Student United Way…
Educating religious leaders in sub-Saharan Africa about male circumcision increases the likelihood that men will undergo the procedure, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators found in a new trial. The results may have profound public health implications, as circumcision has been shown to dramatically reduce the incidence of HIV. Public health experts…
TOMPKINS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Your Partner for a Healthy Community Frank Kruppa – Public Health Director FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, April 20, 2017 For more information contact: Melissa Gatch at 274-6604 National Infant Immunization Week April 22-29, 2017 (ITHACA, NY, April 24, 2017) – National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is…
Alumni and faculty will share ideas on conservation and climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian’s Earth Optimism Summit, while students and faculty will ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and walk in the national Science March on April 22. The university’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future is a major sponsor…
In discussions about climate change, many people seem to think the only real problem is replacing fossil fuels, and once that’s done nothing much really needs to change. “That’s not only false, it’s a really dangerous way of thinking,” said Karen Pinkus, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature in…