Food Systems & Health
Faculty and staff within Cornell’s Department of Public & Ecosystem Health have been funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce to help...
The College of Veterinary Medicine and NY FarmNet, in partnership with Rural Minds, has launched a free online course, “Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America,” designed to give learners practical support strategies and resources to navigate mental...
Among more than 30 species of birds and mammals known to scavenge deer carcasses in New York state, bald eagles are the most vulnerable to lead poisoning from hunters’ ammunition and best bioindicator for ongoing monitoring of the hazard, new Cornell research...
Households caught and consumed a far more diverse array of fish than they sold at market, which has important implications for how loss of biodiversity might affect people’s nutrition, especially for those with lower incomes The Cornell study is one of the first to...
Small-scale fishers on Lake Victoria (Africa’s largest freshwater lake, shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) are drowning Safety issues such as storms, a lack of available life jackets, and a shortage of navigational equipment and rescue services are a major cause...
Last week, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated hooding and graduation for its degree programs, a meaningful milestone for students that recognized the successful completion of their studies at Cornell Cornell Public Health celebrated...
Fatal drownings are a big risk for small-scale fishers on Africa’s largest lake, with many of those deaths attributed to bad weather – conditions that are likely to worsen with climate change, according to a new study Lake Victoria – bordering Kenya, Tanzania...
Dr Kathryn Fiorella, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, researches how changes in the environment affect the well-being, economic stability, and food security of communities One area where all those concerns intersect are global...
African swine fever (ASF) is a viral hemorrhagic disease that has spread globally and killed more than half the world’s population of pigs since 2007 A new paper by researchers at Cornell and Makerere University in Uganda confirms that a species of ticks is...
A Cornell-led team has received a 32-million-dollar grant to study the effects of climate change on child malnutrition in Zimbabwe Laura Smith ’07, PhD ’16, assistant professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, is project lead on the Wellcome...
Prioritizing Smoke Hazards in Wildfire Policy Wildfires have increased dramatically in recent years, in part due to climate change While more than 90% of wildfire-attributable deaths are due to smoke, less than 1% of wildfire funding goes to mitigating smoke...
