Emergency Preparedness & Management
Zoonotic spillover — when diseases pass between animals and humans — is a major cause of disease and the primary cause of recent pandemics, including COVID-19 Scientists and practitioners from four continents will gather for a webinar that explores how strategic...
If the world is to reduce the risk of global pandemics, scientists say, we must better manage how we interact with bats, carriers of viruses responsible for some of the worst health crises of recent decades Yet some of the same economic and political pressures that...
It was 1994, and a new virus was killing racehorses in Australia Then it killed a horse trainer who was caring for his charges The virus, called Hendra after the Brisbane suburb where it first surfaced, is a relative of the measles virus Hendra virus has been...
The new HBO show "The Last Of Us" is a whopper Climate change has fueled the rise of a new pathogen that has nearly wiped out humanity The cause of the infection is a bit...
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...
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...
