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Explore the 2025 Cornell Public Health Magazine, a collection of stories celebrating the amazing accomplishments of our students, faculty, alumni, and partners!
Cornell Public Health’s founding mission is to use systems-based approaches to promote health equity through environmentally sustainable advancements, supporting community wellbeing locally and globally. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and after it, amidst increasing disparities in community health outcomes, the commitment to translate research into real-world impact has only grown, especially “right here at home” in New York State. Partnering with organizations across the state, Cornell Public Health’s faculty, staff, and students are working to advance health and wellbeing to…
My Applied Practice Experience (APEx) deliverable was a policy case study on the integration of climate change, planetary health, and One Health into the medical curriculum at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo) in Tanzania. Prior to travel, I studied Swahili and worked with medical students from KCMUCo to perform a literature review. In Tanzania, we conducted stakeholder interviews before presenting our case study to the KCMUCo community. We were invited to present our work at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. My second…
Two CARPHA Member States are now better equipped to monitor water quality and prevent water-related health threats, thanks to the donation of multi-parameter water quality testing meters and the piloting of a new Water-Related Infectious Disease (WRID) Surveillance Manual, developed through a collaboration between the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and Cornell University’s Master of Public Health Program. The mission, conducted from March 31st to April 4th, 2025, focused on strengthening technical capacity in Barbados and Grenada, where representatives from CARPHA and Cornell University formally handed over water quality monitoring equipment to Chief Medical Officers in both CARPHA…
Cornell offers students a wide variety of opportunities to become involved in positive change through community-engaged learning. Seven projects are receiving a boost from the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants, awarded two times a year by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to teams of faculty or staff and their community partners. One of these projects, entitled “Community Health Assessment: Ethnographic insights into health disparities in Tompkins County” features Cornell Public Health faculty, Elizabeth Fox and Caroline Yancey, and MPH student, Anthony Un working with community partners, Tompkins County Whole Health and the Civic Ensemble…
Public health is not achieved simply by ensuring there are enough doctors to provide services in a community. To support community wellbeing, unmet social needs that prevent access to care must also be addressed. “Lack of transportation, lack of internet and computer access, high cost and limited availability of childcare, and the lack of services outside typical work hours are all barriers to care,” says Nicole Zulu, Director of Health Planning for the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County. “This is especially true in rural areas…
In May, Cornell Public Health (CPH) hosted an intensive workshop on Innovations in Improving Human Health for 12 delegates from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a large federal agency employing hundreds of the top medical researchers in India. Funded by the World Bank, Cornell’s ICMR visitors were interested in learning more about two of Cornell’s signature strengths—applying a One Health approach to advancing human health, and translating academic research to real-world impacts through partnerships and commercialization…
Faculty from the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, have received an NIH P20 grant to establish the Center for Transformative Infectious Disease Research on Climate, Health and Equity in a Changing Environment (C-CHANGE). Climate change is dramatically increasing both the spread of diseases carried by mosquitos and ticks and the risk of new viruses spilling over from animals into people. “To have the greatest health impacts, we must pivot from reactively responding to outbreaks to proactively understanding the social and environmental conditions that increase risk of outbreaks,” says Dr…
Our Master’s Program publishes an annual magazine to provide students, alumni, prospective students, donors, advisors, and friends with a beautiful annual summary of our work. In this year’s magazine we focus on engagement. To have the greatest impacts, we must reach beyond classroom walls to work directly with communities and organizations in New York and around the world.
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 long been key partners in these efforts to strengthen public health systems, focusing on public health education, workforce capacity building, and applied and engaged research and practice for discovery, innovation, and health impacts. “Since our founding, Cornell Public Health has made a commitment to strengthening public health systems by designing an engaged public health…
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce to help strengthen the public health system in the United States. As part of the National Partners Cooperative Agreement, the recipient organizations will receive a part of the $176 million in funding for the first year of a five-year-cycle. “This partnership is critical because it amplifies our collective impacts on pressing public health challenges in New York State and around the nation,” says Dr. Alexander Travis, director of Cornell Public Health and founding chair of the Department of…