Infectious Disease Epidemiology
My name is Rachel Hilliard and I am a member of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine’s class of 2019 I am off to Uganda this summer with the Expanding Horizons program! For the next eight weeks I will be conducting a study on tick-borne...
My name is Sabine Fischer-Daly and I am a member of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine’s class of 2018 American Samoa will be my home for two months this summer, where I will work as an Expanding Horizons fellow I recently completed my second...
Eating dirt can even become an addiction, an impulsive act hidden from others “With geophagy, the language of substance abuse is really common,” says Sera Young, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Nutrition in the Department of Population Medicine and...
An international, multi-institutional team of researchers that included Guillaume Lambert, a Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in Applied and Engineering Physics at the College of Engineering, has developed a low-cost, rapid paper-based diagnostic system for...
Cornell nutritional sciences professors Julia Finkelstein and Saurabh Mehta are leading an international team assembled by the WHO to study the risks of Zika virus transmission through breast milk Finkelstein and Mehta's previous research similar viruses and their...
By Krishna Ramanujan Originally posted in the Cornell Chronicle on June 21, 2016 Outbreaks of Zika and Ebola, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, foodborne diseases and chronic illnesses are constantly in the news, making comprehensive public health...
Dr Karel A Schat is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the College of Veterinary Medicine He has won numerous awards for his work in avian virology, including the Beecham Award for Research Excellence, the Upjohn Achievement...
Professor of Virology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the College of Veterinary Medicine Whittaker's research focus is on the entry of influenza viruses, rhaboviurses and coronaviruses into host cells In addition, Whittaker is a primary faculty...
Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine Ivanek's research focus is in public health and epidemiology of infectious and foodborne diseases Her epidemiological approaches...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) believes that about 17% of Americans get sick from foodborne diseases each year The CDC estimates that 59% of these illnesses are caused by viruses and 39% are caused by bacteria The some of the most commons...
The Looming Threat of Avian Flu, a recent article by Mary Mckenna in the New York Times Magazine, delves into the crippling 2015 outbreak in the Midwest and the possible threat that this virus poses to the United States in the future Between December 2014 and June...
