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February 24, 2022

Dr Elizabeth Fox, an assistant professor of practice in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, recently co-authored a paper published in the journal Appetite that examines the drivers of food choice among women in Nairobi, Kenya Fox's co-author, Dr Shauna...

February 14, 2022

Dr Kevin Cummings is an associate professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health He received both his PhD and DVM degrees from Cornell University, and has been teaching epidemiology and public health to students for the last 20 years Dr Cummings'...

February 2, 2022

Audrey Baker is the Manager of Applied Learning & Evaluation in the Cornell MPH Program She is a double alumna of Cornell University, receiving her BS and MPA from the College of Human Ecology Audrey’s interest in public health began after completing Cornell's...

January 21, 2022

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...

December 13, 2021

Dr Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health examined the Consequences of populist radical right (PRR) Parties in Subnational Governments on Health Policy in her new article published in the journal Government...

December 8, 2021

While training in social sciences in college, Dr Karla Hanson knew she was interested in engaged learning—“except we didn’t even have the language for it at that time,” she remembers After a job writing grant proposals for a community health center, she went...

December 1, 2021

Dr Katie Fiorella is an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health and Section Chief for the Food Systems & Health concentration in the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program She received both her MPH and PhD from the University of...

November 18, 2021

“Feed the world” might be an over-simplified pop-song lyric, but Dr Elizabeth Fox, Cornell ’09, ’16, is working hard to explore the complexities of the concept Dr Fox joined the MPH Program in 2019, with a focus in food systems and health More specifically,...

November 14, 2021

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...

November 11, 2021

“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”...

November 1, 2021

  Dr Amelia Greiner Safi joined the MPH Program in 2017, adding to her 13 years of teaching and research experience Dr Safi received her MS in Communication at Cornell (with a focus on risk and science communication) and her PhD in social and behavioral...

October 21, 2021

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...