Faculty Spotlights
Dr Irene Sumbele joined the MPH Program as a visiting scholar in 2019, coming to Cornell from the conflict zone of Cameroon as an Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow Last year, she was named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar for...
Cornell MPH Professor Dr Gary Whittaker and Qinghua Guo, Cornell MPH '22, recently published a paper in Comparative Medicine that examines the underlying origins of zoonotic coronaviruses in bats The paper, written with Cornell DVM Graduate Alison Stout and former...
Dr Casey Cazer, Cornell ’16, ’20, a veterinarian and assistant professor in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, has mentored three MPH students in applied research projects that use veterinary clinical data and machine learning to...
Five years ago, the Cornell MPH Program was in its infancy and looking for faculty and staff to bring this Program from an idea to reality The first hire the MPH Program made was Audrey Baker, now Manager of Applied Learning and Evaluation Audrey, a graduate of...
Cornell MPH Assistant Professor, Dr Charley Willison and University of Michigan PhD student, Amanda Mauri recently co-authored a paper in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health that looks at urban homelessness in Organisation for Economic...
As unprecedented unemployment rates and disruptions in food supply chains have continued to unfold around the world, the pandemic has led to a substantial rise in food insecurity, which includes actual and perceived lack of access to nutritious food...
Michelle Falkenbach, a Postdoctoral Associate working with Assistant Professor Dr Willison recently released her book volume on health policy The Populist Radical Right and Health includes case studies from around the world about how these political trends are...
Since its inception, the MPH Program has been dedicated to working hand-in-hand with public health organizations to support their needs Even before the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed health departments across the state, national assessments showed that many public...
Gary Whittaker studied Biochemistry and completed a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Leeds (UK) before moving to the US to do post-doctoral studies in cell biology at Yale University Medical School Gary came to Cornell in 1996, where he has established a...