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Food Systems & Health

May 6, 2020

After graduating last year, MPH Program ’19 alumna Andreina Martin joined Cornell’s Dietetic Internship Program in the Division of Nutritional Sciences She’s been immersed in community and clinical nutrition ever since, practicing her skills with Foodnet...

December 17, 2019

Antimicrobials –including antibiotics – are used in humans and livestock to prevent or treat infection However, overuse of antimicrobials can lead disease-causing microbes to mutate and become ‘superbugs’, immune to the drugs that treat them, also known as...

November 7, 2019

On Tuesday, November 5th the Cornell MPH program hosted a diverse panel of five stakeholders working at various levels of the local food system Panelists Silas Conroy, Alexas Esposito, Heather Sandford, Yao Foli, and Eric Carey, answered questions from community...

May 17, 2019

  Mr Hirokazu Togo, a public servant specializing in food safety at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, took a leave of absence to study at Cornell University in New York State After receiving advice from a work supervisor, Mr Togo became interested in...

May 1, 2019

  Hirokazu Togo is a master of public health student from Tokyo, Japan After attending the Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine in Japan, he chose to pursue an MPH at Cornell with a concentration in food systems for healthWhat is your area...

April 15, 2019

Cornell MPH student Qijin Wang attended the 10th Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) annual conference from March 8th - 10th at Chicago, IL Qijin presented her work “Nutrition, Food Safety and Dietary Analyses of Prahoc Consumption in Rural Villages...

January 28, 2019

Martin Wiedmann/Provided Listeria monocytogenes An innovative computer program could be a big help for food safety professionals working to keep production facilities free of food-borne pathogens Cornell scientists have developed a computer program,...

January 9, 2019

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October 12, 2018

The students and instructor of the Food System and Health class and the panelists of the Local Food Systems Discussion Photo credit: Tatiana Thomas   “Because it [the food system] is an interdependent system, everyone has to move together, producers, consumers,...

September 20, 2018

Written by Melanie Greaver Cordova Originally posted at: https://www2vetcornelledu/news/20180920/master-public-health-program-plans-local-nutrition-disease-prevention-projects Students in the Master of Public Health Program brainstorm a project...

June 28, 2018

GEN MEREDITH “Real potential and benefit will come from us remembering to focus on systems change—changing policies and practices and investing in community capacity—instead of only focusing on short term fixes” Gen Meredith emphasizes the critical role food...