Despite the danger and death toll of heat-related disasters in the U.S., the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has never declared a heat wave an emergency. The reason is twofold: a lack of real-time data on the impacts of extreme heat, and a lack of clarity on how to mitigate those impacts.
Avni Patel ‘22 was committed to advancing social justice as an MPH student, and was determined to continue doing so through a career in health policy. After graduation, Patel began working with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Legislative Affairs Office as a Presidential Management Fellow (PMF)—a highly prestigious leadership program with the U.S. government. After completing a rotation on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health, Patel’s next rotation was in the White House, working on Vice President Kamala Harris’s public health portfolio.
Bird flu has crept uncomfortably close to home in recent months. Public health experts have detected nearly five dozen known infections of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in people in the U.S. Dairy farmers are approaching a full year of exposure to the virus in their herds. And more than 100 million birds in U.S. poultry farms have been lost to the pathogen or killed in attempts to stop its spread since February 2022. Meanwhile the type of H5N1 virus that has been spreading, known as clade 2.3.4.4b, has also infiltrated ecosystems around the world, wreaking devastation that has mostly gone overlooked.
The Cornell Health Impacts Core (or The Core), works collaboratively with partners to enhance their capacity to design and deliver effective public health programs. The Core has a proven track-record of supporting diverse programs across the United States and globally, including many focused on strengthening the public health workforce. Building on that, we are thrilled to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Fox and Dr. Gen Meredith, and The Core staff, have been funded to help strengthen the WIC Workforce.
Research from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and universities across the state have found manmade chemicals known as PFAS are being found in our ecosystem and hurt public health. “PFAS are a whole category of thousands of different types of chemicals and they’re known as forever chemicals because they are really hard to break down,” said Professor of Public Health at Cornell University Alistair Hayden. “We use them in many different processes, a lot of plastics manufacturing.”
Faculty from the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have received an NIH P20 grant to establish the Center for Transformative Infectious...
Our Master’s Program publishes an annual magazine to provide students, alumni, prospective students, donors, advisors, and friends with a beautiful annual summary of our work In this year’s magazine we focus on engagement To have the greatest impacts, we must...
Scammers, beware! Cornell researchers created a multi-step protocol to detect and remove fake data created by bots and humans attempting to enroll in online research studies, thus preventing biased results and unwarranted monetary compensation to bad actors The...
The first thing farmer Erica Sawatzke does every morning is check on her turkeys For generations, Sawatzke and her family have run Oakdale Farm in Minnesota They usually have tens of thousands of turkeys on their farm at a time But last year, the day before...
From introducing reusable takeout containers to Cornell’s dining facilities to reducing laboratory dependence on fossil fuels, the President’s Awards for Employee Excellence celebrated these and other achievements Nov 19 in Barton Hall The annual ceremony...
Rocky and Ren Hazelman run a chicken farm in West Milford, NJ, about 10 miles south from the Jennings Creek wildfire along the state’s border with New York Their 2,000 chickens require about 150 gallons of water daily, and the couple usually has no trouble...
