Partner Spotlights
For decades, public health systems in many parts of the world have been under-equipped In response, government and partner organizations are working to ensure integrated and adaptive systems, and to expand the skilled workforce to meet growing demands Universities have...
Cayuga Health is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its Center for Health Equity Transformation on October 1, 2024 The health system is on a mission to improve health equity in all of the communities it serves in the Southern Tier of New York State The Center...
Faculty and staff within Cornell’s Department of Public & Ecosystem Health have been funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce to help...
Be first, be right, be credible That’s the crisis communication mantra for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention But it’s hard to save lives with the right message when you’re competing with a flood of misinformation and noise To help local health...
As a registered nurse and director of patient services for the Chautauqua County Health Department in western New York, Wendy Douglas conducted case investigations and monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic The experience laid bare the disparities public health...
In the vacant former Ulta Beauty space at The Shops at Ithaca Mall, eye-catching displays on a recent Saturday featured not cosmetics but brightly colored sticky notes, magic marker drawings, file cards, masking tape, yarn, pipe cleaners and Play-Doh Equipped with...
Shot@Life is a grassroots advocacy campaign under the United Nations Foundation that champions, supports, and invests in global childhood immunization programs like UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance In 2023, Shot@Life secured...
The Ithaca Green New Deal was adopted as a resolution in June 2019, committing the city to carbon neutrality across the community by 2030 Almost half of the city’s emissions are transportation related “Transportation is a hard nut to crack,” notes Rebecca Evans,...
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of cases was determined by how many people were testing positive every day, using PCR tests While the tests themselves are considered highly accurate, there were limitations to this method, as not everybody had the same...
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is a private liberal arts university in Ecuador, with a main campus in the high Andean mountains of Quito, a satellite campus in the Galapagos Islands, and a research station in the Amazonian lowlands USFQ is also one of...
For Jeanne Moseley, teaching public health equity begins with conversations around humility Having spent decades working in public health and international development, she has learned that humility is key to understanding how systemic inequities vary by context,...
