One Health
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...
Two students in Cornell’s Master of Public Health program were part of the winning team in this year’s 2023 Global Health Case Competition, a campus-wide contest that asks students to develop solutions for a real-world public health problem In February, nineteen...
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...
Elsbeth Kane, MPH ’21, DVM ’23, first became interested in the role of veterinary medicine in public health while studying abroad in Kenya and Uganda as an environmental biology major at Columbia University “That was my first experience with the concept of...
“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...
One of the main reasons for creating Cornell’s MPH Program was to help spur national conversations on the links between climate change and health “The field as a whole just wasn’t doing this yet,” says Dr Alexander Travis, the MPH Program’s director To make...
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...
In partnership with Dr Onyinye Balogun in Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr Amelia Greiner Safi (Public and Ecosystem Health), MPH students Jennifer Gil and Nyaradzo Sirewu, and Global Health student Hannah Lee have launched their nation-wide study...
Dr Karla Hanson began her career in public health as director of planning and development at a federally qualified primary care health center This experience led her to pursue graduate school in health policy at the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU, where she...
At first thought, forensic pathology may not seem like public health Working in a coroner’s office in her hometown, however; Maura Benner could see the connections “A lot of the problems we saw can be explained with the social determinants of health,” she says...
In her sophomore year of college, Avni Patel enrolled in a public health social justice course The professor focused on feminist theory in public health “My passion for public health stemmed from my feminism and guided me,” says Patel After college, she went to...
