Infectious Disease Epidemiology
The Pandemic Response Officer (PRO) Program was first launched in 2020 by Cornell’s COVID-19 Response Team Co-led by the MPH Program’s associate director, Dr Gen Meredith, the campus-wide initiative set out to limit transmission and ensure that any Cornellian with...
Dr Kevin Cummings is an associate professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health He received both his PhD and DVM degrees from Cornell University, and has been teaching epidemiology and public health to students for the last 20 years Dr Cummings'...
Dr Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health along with a team of researchers from Europe analyzed the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in France, Israel, Italy and Spain and their impact on health and economic...
Dr Michelle Falkenbach, a postdoctoral associate in the Cornell MPH Program, along with Raffael Heiss, Madeleine Waser, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl examined the European response to the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic The team of global researchers...
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...
