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January 21, 2025

Lauren Singh was interested in tickborne diseases before she applied to Cornell Public Health. “I remember coming across Dr. Goodman’s lab and her work with ticks while researching different public health programs,” she says, “and it immediately caught my attention.” Singh joined the lab this summer and began working on an effort known as the New York State Tick Blitz. Supported by the Northeast Regional Center for Excellence in Vector-Borne Diseases (NEVBD) and USDA, the goal of the Tick Blitz is to identify and track the expansion of different tick species throughout the state due to climate change and urbanization…

December 2, 2024

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.

July 18, 2024

Veterinary diagnostic laboratories across the United States had a substantial positive effect on human health during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study from researchers at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine The paper, published June 25 in...

July 1, 2024

In this video, Jeanne Moseley describes her project: “The Art of Global and Public Health: Integrating the Arts and Humanities into Global and Public Health Curriculum and Education at Cornell,” funded by the Center for Teaching...

June 3, 2024

Last week, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine celebrated hooding and graduation for its degree programs, a meaningful milestone for students that recognized the successful completion of their studies at Cornell Cornell Public Health celebrated...

March 28, 2024

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...

March 5, 2024

Having grown up in Chennai, a city on the southeast coast of India, Shreya Chitnavis felt “right at home” when she stepped off the plane to begin a summer internship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia—another humid, coastal city “India and Cambodia have a lot of...

February 2, 2024

Coming from a family of dentists and doctors, Julia Metri ‘23 was always interested in healthcare In college, she worked in hospitals and clinics in Haiti, and then as a vascular surgery unit technician in Boston While there, the Covid-19 pandemic arrived “The...

January 25, 2024

Avery Sirwatka worked on farms, in greenhouses, in food distribution, and in food retail for years before first learning about ‘food systems’ in college as a framework for the complex interconnections between these sectors As an undergraduate in Buffalo, New York,...

January 11, 2024

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...

December 14, 2023

Dr Laura Goodman has been fascinated by microbes, infectious disease, and “pathogens that affect both humans and animals” since her undergraduate days, when she became concerned with how diseases interact with climate change After studying zoonotic disease at...

December 11, 2023

Avery Sirwatka is a master’s student in public health from Jamestown, New York He earned an associate’s degree from Jamestown Community College and a dual bachelor’s degree in public policy and psychology from the University at Buffalo and now studies the impacts...