Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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...
Ana Cristina Barsallo Cochez joined the Cornell MPH Program after earning a Master of Science in Food Safety from Cornell As a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine who had been practicing in Panama, she was interested in foodborne outbreaks and came to Cornell to gain skills...
Lakshman Balaji joined the Cornell MPH Program after working as a dentist in the only government funded hospital in his home state, in India As an MPH student specializing in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Lakshman refined skills in biostatistics and data analytics...
After graduating last year from the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Concentration, Cornell MPH alumnus Steven Shelley moved to Augusta, Maine for a position as Tuberculosis Epidemiologist for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MeCDC) Recently, he...
Gary Whittaker studied Biochemistry and completed a PhD in Microbiology at the University of Leeds (UK) before moving to the US to do post-doctoral studies in cell biology at Yale University Medical School Gary came to Cornell in 1996, where he has established a...
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...
MPH Student Lakshman Balaji recently produced this post about Measels in New York Measles in New York: One of the worst measles outbreaks of recent times is happening right now in New York I wanted to figure out where the vaccination exemptions are happening, and...
