Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Dr Irene Sumbele joined the MPH Program as a visiting scholar in 2019, coming to Cornell from the conflict zone of Cameroon as an Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) Fellow Last year, she was named the 2020 Beau Biden Scholar for...
Cornell MPH Professor Dr Gary Whittaker and Qinghua Guo, Cornell MPH '22, recently published a paper in Comparative Medicine that examines the underlying origins of zoonotic coronaviruses in bats The paper, written with Cornell DVM Graduate Alison Stout and former...
When she applied to Cornell’s MPH Program, Jubi Lin was most curious about the One Health paradigm “I always wanted to go into human medicine, but had never thought about how it was connected to all these sectors before,” she recalls She was first drawn...
Dr Casey Cazer, Cornell ’16, ’20, a veterinarian and assistant professor in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, has mentored three MPH students in applied research projects that use veterinary clinical data and machine learning to...
Growing up in South Africa, Anke Kotze was aware of public health crises every day Droughts and fires, HIV and tuberculosis epidemics, rationed electricity, and a failing healthcare system shaped her worldview “I realized I was in a position to make change,”...
“The Cornell MPH Program is our longest partnership,” says Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD) program manager Emily Mader NEVBD focuses on workforce training, applied research, and developing a community of practice...
In late spring of 2020, after campus shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group formed at Cornell to plan for the potential reopening of campus in the fall “Reopening was predicated on understanding behavioral surveillance data,” says emergency preparedness...
Since its inception, the MPH Program has been dedicated to working hand-in-hand with public health organizations to support their needs Even before the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed health departments across the state, national assessments showed that many public...
After graduating from the Cornell MPH program’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology track in May 2020, Shane Conyers began a PhD program in Epidemiology In addition to a full roster of coursework in his first year at Emory University, Conyers is already involved in two...
Caitlin Baumhart joined the MPH Program in January 2018, while working on her Master of Professional Studies in International Development after finishing 4 years in Tanzania with the Peace Corps As a student studying in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology...
Hirokazu Togo came to Cornell’s MPH Program on a Fulbright scholarship, on a two-year sabbatical from his position as Senior Environmental Health Officer for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government After graduating as first-ever valedictorian of a Cornell MPH class, in...
