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White-tailed deer – the most abundant large mammal in North America – are harboring SARS-CoV-2 variants that once widely circulated but are no longer found in humans Whether or not deer could act as long-term reservoirs for these variants that have become...
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 children in high-poverty communities, school meals are often a critical source of nutrition, and can also help offset grocery budgets for low-income households Responding to a need to address record low school meal program participation in Tompkins County, a team...
Dr Laura Smith first developed an interest in toxin exposure and the concept of “anti-nutrients” while working on a Cornell collaboration with the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative in 2009 Cassava, a starchy root vegetable that can be grown with relative efficiency,...
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,...
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,...
Drawn to the MPH Program’s focus on sustainability, equity and engagement, Dr Kate Dickin joined Cornell’s MPH faculty in 2021 after over a decade as a researcher and mentor with the Division of Nutritional Sciences There, she led multiple international and US...
When she was still an undergraduate student at Cornell, Victoria Montero co-founded the College and Career Readiness Initiative (CCRI), which helps underserved high school students prepare for college “I always wanted to be involved in a project I was very...
After George Floyd was killed by police in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic disproportionately impacting people of color, Pertula George-Redd realized, “I want to channel my sadness and anger to do something for my community” That year, George-Redd founded...
“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...
One of the main reasons for creating Cornell’s MPH Program was to help spur national conversations on the links between climate change and health “The field as a whole just wasn’t doing this yet,” says Dr Alexander Travis, the MPH Program’s director To make...
