Faculty Spotlights
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,...
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...
“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...
Since the age of five, Dr Kevin Cummings knew he wanted to become a veterinarian He grew up playing with his dogs and watching birds outside of Buffalo, New York Pursuing his dream years later at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and then in clinical...
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...
A nonprofit and researchers from Boston University and Cornell University will study the landscape of homelessness public policy and its consequences Numerous government agencies at all levels make public policies that are influential to the well-being of...
Dr Amie Patchen has been teaching for over 16 years After receiving her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College, she joined the Cornell MPH Program as a postdoctoral associate, where she currently teaches One Health and Public Health Foundations I for...
Lara Parrilla, MPH, RD, was first exposed to the field of public health through an undergraduate internship with Cornell University Cooperative Extension in NYC “It was through this experience that I developed an understanding of and respect for the importance...
In partnership with Dr Onyinye Balogun in Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr Amelia Greiner Safi (Public and Ecosystem Health), MPH students Jennifer Gil and Nyaradzo Sirewu, and Global Health student Hannah Lee have launched their nation-wide study...
Dr Michelle Falkenbach, along with international colleagues, recently published a paper in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management that asks the question "Are health systems and their health workforce resilient in the face of the COVID-19...
