Infectious Disease Epidemiology
If the world is to reduce the risk of global pandemics, scientists say, we must better manage how we interact with bats, carriers of viruses responsible for some of the worst health crises of recent decades Yet some of the same economic and political pressures that...
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, dedicated to improving public awareness and focusing efforts on reducing the burden of this prevalent disease spread through the bite of infected ticks While most documented cases of Lyme disease in the United States are recorded in...
As an MPH student, Avalon Monti didn’t imagine one day using her public health skills to help prepare astronauts for future missions to Mars Then, Monti saw an open position for an epidemiologist at NASA, and impressed the hiring team with the systems thinking skills...
It was 1994, and a new virus was killing racehorses in Australia Then it killed a horse trainer who was caring for his charges The virus, called Hendra after the Brisbane suburb where it first surfaced, is a relative of the measles virus Hendra virus has been...
Rohit Mashani has worked for the healthcare consulting company Veranex since graduating from the MPH Program Veranex “provides end-to-end solutions” for clients developing new healthcare technologies, explains Manshani According to its website, the company is a...
The new HBO show "The Last Of Us" is a whopper Climate change has fueled the rise of a new pathogen that has nearly wiped out humanity The cause of the infection is a bit...
White-tailed deer – the most abundant large mammal in North America – are harboring SARS-CoV-2 variants that once widely circulated but are no longer found in humans Whether or not deer could act as long-term reservoirs for these variants that have become...
When Dr Lorraine Francis, associate professor of practice with the MPH Program, arrived in Ithaca in 2019, she brought to the Cornell community 18 years of experience in Caribbean public health, including tracking disease outbreaks and helping Caribbean nations prepare...
When Anabella Pinton was first looking into public health programs, she was drawn to Cornell’s unique epidemiology concentration “The specific focus on infectious diseases was special and intriguing,” she remembers, especially with its emphasis on animals,...
“Cornell’s combination of public health and ecosystem health is a perfect fit—it marries all the elements of my research into one,” says Dr Raina Plowright, a world-renowned ecologist and epidemiologist who joined Cornell in 2022 as a Radical Collaboration...
Since the age of five, Dr Kevin Cummings knew he wanted to become a veterinarian He grew up playing with his dogs and watching birds outside of Buffalo, New York Pursuing his dream years later at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and then in clinical...
