Food Systems & Health
A study of more than 5,000 salmonella bacteria isolated over 15 years from dairy cattle samples in the Northeast reveals a significant increase in resistance to the antimicrobial medications ampicillin, florfenicol and ceftiofur Analyzing data derived from bovine...
Researchers at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab are leading interagency efforts to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease in New York and in the United States CWD is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a rare neurodegenerative disease affecting...
Mosquito Control Policy Governance With anthropogenic climate change, vector-borne diseases are moving into new habitats Understanding how and why governments respond to vector-borne diseases differently is critical to preventing disease outbreaks, morbidity, and...
Coming from a family of dentists and doctors, Julia Metri ‘23 was always interested in healthcare In college, she worked in hospitals and clinics in Haiti, and then as a vascular surgery unit technician in Boston While there, the Covid-19 pandemic arrived “The...
Avery Sirwatka worked on farms, in greenhouses, in food distribution, and in food retail for years before first learning about ‘food systems’ in college as a framework for the complex interconnections between these sectors As an undergraduate in Buffalo, New York,...
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is a private liberal arts university in Ecuador, with a main campus in the high Andean mountains of Quito, a satellite campus in the Galapagos Islands, and a research station in the Amazonian lowlands USFQ is also one of...
A study that used photos taken by participants to spark conversation reveals firsthand accounts of how climate change, land use and dams on the Mekong River are threatening the future of the communities dependent on those ecosystems The study, which brought together...
Avery Sirwatka is a master’s student in public health from Jamestown, New York He earned an associate’s degree from Jamestown Community College and a dual bachelor’s degree in public policy and psychology from the University at Buffalo and now studies the impacts...
Working in a corporate firm in Argentina while in law school, Denise Frohmann found herself doing a lot of pro bono work, and realized the for-profit sector might not be for her “I was interested in the intersection between health and law, but hadn’t made that...
The federal government has conducted the US Household Food Security Survey Module for more than 25 years The data collected annually from about 50,000 US households helps form estimates of the scale of food insecurity — not having access to enough food for a...
Preparing for firearm hunting season for white-tailed deer, Brian Bird visited a shooting range recently to sight in his rifle – recommended after an off-season, and necessary since he’s switching bullets, to a type he’s using for the first time in his several...
