Associate Director of International Programs and the Master of Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine

Gen Meredith, a graduate of McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine (Occupational Therapy) and the University of Massachusetts’ School of Public Health (Master of Public Health), has come to Cornell to help design and lead the Master of Public Health program. Prior to this, Gen spent eight years leading large international development projects with a focus on national public health systems development in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and four years doing the same with U.S. states. Gen’s work has centered primarily on institutional capacity development and growth, specifically related to integrated disease surveillance and response systems, the routine collection and use of data, and effective public health leadership and management infrastructure to support population health access and accountability.