Emergency Preparedness & Management
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,...
“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...
In 2022, Cornell and Weill Cornell Medicine announced the new Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response (CCPPR) Addressing something as far-reaching as a pandemic requires close collaboration across historically siloed disciplines, and Cornell’s strengths...
The Pandemic Response Officer (PRO) Program was first launched in 2020 by Cornell’s COVID-19 Response Team Co-led by the MPH Program’s associate director, Dr Gen Meredith, the campus-wide initiative set out to limit transmission and ensure that any Cornellian with...
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...
At first thought, forensic pathology may not seem like public health Working in a coroner’s office in her hometown, however; Maura Benner could see the connections “A lot of the problems we saw can be explained with the social determinants of health,” she says...
Cornell MPH Assistant Professor, Dr Charley Willison recently published a new paper in World Medical & Health Policy examining the drivers of governmental response to public health emergencies COVID-19 is not the first, and will not be the last public health...
“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”...
Dr Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Cornell MPH Program, along with Raffael Heiss, Madeleine Waser, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl examined the European response to the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic The team of global researchers...
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,”...
In late spring of 2020, after campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group formed at Cornell to plan for the potential reopening of campus in the fall “Reopening was predicated on understanding behavioral surveillance data,” says emergency preparedness...
