Student 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Last month, Cornell's Biomedical & Biological Sciences Program held its annual symposium where students, faculty, and staff from the College of Veterinary Medicine attended sessions, a keynote, and poster session throughout the day MPH Student Alyssa Morse,...
One of the many benefits of working at Cornell is the opportunity to earn a degree at no cost through the Employee Degree Program Currently, several employees at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine are taking advantage of the program and pursuing a...
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...
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...
