Student Spotlights
For children in high-poverty communities, school meals are often a critical source of nutrition, and can also help offset grocery budgets for low-income households Responding to a need to address record low school meal program participation in Tompkins County, a team...
When Nyaradzo Sirewu and Avni Patel saw that Cornell’s Center for Health Equity (CCHEq) was looking for MPH students to build and pilot training that would help anyone take action against racism, they jumped at the opportunity “After the George Floyd killing,...
When Anabella Pinton was first looking into public health programs, she was drawn to Cornell’s unique epidemiology concentration “The specific focus on infectious diseases was special and intriguing,” she remembers, especially with its emphasis on animals,...
When she was still an undergraduate student at Cornell, Victoria Montero co-founded the College and Career Readiness Initiative (CCRI), which helps underserved high school students prepare for college “I always wanted to be involved in a project I was very...
The Pandemic Response Officer (PRO) Program was first launched in 2020 by Cornell’s COVID-19 Response Team Co-led by the MPH Program’s associate director, Dr Gen Meredith, the campus-wide initiative set out to limit transmission and ensure that any Cornellian with...
MPH students, Seb Loonen and Avni Patel, met with staff members in Representative Sean Casten’s office to talk about their Applied Practice Experience (APE) projects, and the impact of federal funding—particularly the 2021 Research Investment to Spark the...
In partnership with Dr Onyinye Balogun in Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr Amelia Greiner Safi (Public and Ecosystem Health), MPH students Jennifer Gil and Nyaradzo Sirewu, and Global Health student Hannah Lee have launched their nation-wide study...
Graduate Students in Public Health (GraPH) is a new organization founded by first-year MPH students to help fellow Cornell students build careers in public health and healthcare industries The organization was founded with the goal of fostering interdisciplinary...
At first thought, forensic pathology may not seem like public health Working in a coroner’s office in her hometown, however; Maura Benner could see the connections “A lot of the problems we saw can be explained with the social determinants of health,” she says...
In her sophomore year of college, Avni Patel enrolled in a public health social justice course The professor focused on feminist theory in public health “My passion for public health stemmed from my feminism and guided me,” says Patel After college, she went to...
When she applied to Cornell’s MPH Program, Jubi Lin was most curious about the One Health paradigm “I always wanted to go into human medicine, but had never thought about how it was connected to all these sectors before,” she recalls She was first drawn...
