Partner Spotlights
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,...
A study that used photos taken by participants to spark conversation reveals firsthand accounts of how climate change, land use and dams on the Mekong River are threatening the future of the communities dependent on those ecosystems The study, which brought together...
Growing up in Ghana, Osei Kwadwo Boateng experienced disparities in rural healthcare infrastructure firsthand “Someone living in a rural area might walk ten miles or more to a city, just hoping to see a doctor,” he explains After losing his grandmother—which he...
As a small, rural health department, Madison County Department of Health (MCDOH) relies on interns for extra support Internships are “a win-win,” says MCDOH quality improvement coordinator Erica Bird “We have a staff of about 30, so we really appreciate the extra...
In December 2021, a team of Cornell University MPH Program faculty were awarded a 2021-22 Engaged Research Grant from the David M Einhorn Center for Community Engagement The group, led by Lara Parrilla, lecturer and community and academic partnership manager, was one...
When Dr Lorraine Francis, associate professor of practice with the MPH Program, arrived in Ithaca in 2019, she brought to the Cornell community 18 years of experience in Caribbean public health, including tracking disease outbreaks and helping Caribbean nations prepare...
After George Floyd was killed by police in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic disproportionately impacting people of color, Pertula George-Redd realized, “I want to channel my sadness and anger to do something for my community” That year, George-Redd founded...
