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February 7, 2025

Sonja Lockhart had long-standing interests in sustainable agriculture and food justice when she first came to Cornell. As an MPH student, two of Lockhart’s community-engaged projects—writing a grant proposal for Acres4Change in Baltimore, and developing an evaluation plan for Khuba International’s Quarter Acre for the People Project in Upstate New York—inspired a newfound interest in supporting Black farmers. After graduating in 2022, a job posting by Black Farmer Fund immediately caught Lockhart’s eye. Black Farmer Fund (BFF) is a nonprofit that provides grants and low interest loans, paired with tailored technical assistance, to Black farmers from Pennsylvania to Maine…

January 21, 2025

Lauren Singh was interested in tickborne diseases before she applied to Cornell Public Health. “I remember coming across Dr. Goodman’s lab and her work with ticks while researching different public health programs,” she says, “and it immediately caught my attention.” Singh joined the lab this summer and began working on an effort known as the New York State Tick Blitz. Supported by the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD) and USDA, the goal of the Tick Blitz is to identify and track the expansion of different tick species throughout the state due to climate change and urbanization…

December 10, 2024

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…

December 2, 2024

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 reach beyond classroom walls to work directly with communities and organizations in New York and around the world.

July 18, 2024

Veterinary diagnostic laboratories across the United States had a substantial positive effect on human health during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study from researchers at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine The paper, published June 25 in...

March 28, 2024

Shot@Life is a grassroots advocacy campaign under the United Nations Foundation that champions, supports, and invests in global childhood immunization programs like UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance In 2023, Shot@Life secured...

February 12, 2024

When Stephen Sansoterra applied to Cornell in early 2020, Covid-19 had just arrived in the US “I was interested in learning more about public health during a pandemic, while taking a step into healthcare,” he remembers He was drawn to Cornell Public Health’s...

January 19, 2024

Ashwin Issac chose Cornell Public Health to translate his healthcare background into a consulting career “The skills I gained at Cornell are exactly what I needed,” he attests Today, as a Risk and Compliance Consultant with KPMG’s forensic advisory practice,...

December 6, 2023

Working in a corporate firm in Argentina while in law school, Denise Frohmann found herself doing a lot of pro bono work, and realized the for-profit sector might not be for her “I was interested in the intersection between health and law, but hadn’t made that...

April 10, 2023

As an MPH student, Avalon Monti didn’t imagine one day using her public health skills to help prepare astronauts for future missions to Mars Then, Monti saw an open position for an epidemiologist at NASA, and impressed the hiring team with the systems thinking skills...

April 6, 2023

The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)’s website describes itself as “the world’s largest humanitarian network,” supporting over 192 countries and 14 million volunteers IFRC’s program areas span disaster and climate...

March 7, 2023

Rohit Mashani has worked for the healthcare consulting company Veranex since graduating from the MPH Program Veranex “provides end-to-end solutions” for clients developing new healthcare technologies, explains Manshani According to its website, the company is a...