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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...
Medicaid and health systems are playing a growing role in providing housing and other services to people experiencing homelessness, investments that could bolster – or eventually overtake – existing governance structures, new Cornell research finds As of August...
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…
Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan Crowley from Cornell University, USA, and...
The College of Veterinary Medicine and NY FarmNet, in partnership with Rural Minds, has launched a free online course, “Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America,” designed to give learners practical support strategies and resources to navigate mental...
Better surveillance of marine mammals that wash up on beaches and in marshes will provide more accurate estimates of how many individuals of many species are dying and the causes of those deaths, according to a new study published Sept 4 in Marine Mammal Science In...
Be first, be right, be credible That’s the crisis communication mantra for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention But it’s hard to save lives with the right message when you’re competing with a flood of misinformation and noise To help local health...
A new study from College of Veterinary Medicine researchers finds the first genetic evidence of feline coronavirus (FCoV) transmission between a captive wild and a domestic cat The discovery – enabled by a novel approach using...
Among more than 30 species of birds and mammals known to scavenge deer carcasses in New York state, bald eagles are the most vulnerable to lead poisoning from hunters’ ammunition and best bioindicator for ongoing monitoring of the hazard, new Cornell research...
Cornell’s first Global Grand Challenge continues this year as Einaudi’s Migrations Program. We also welcome three program directors. We’re excited to announce that Cornell’s Migrations initiative is stepping into a new phase as the Migrations Program, part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Einaudi’s newest regional and thematic program will build on the work of the Migrations Global Grand Challenge to inform real-world policies and outcomes for populations that migrate. Migrations researchers and students will continue the important work of studying movement across borders, racism and dispossession, and migration of all living things under the leadership of the program’s new director, Kathryn…
Unsheltered homelessness is highly visible, and presents social, political, health, and safety challenges This reality creates a conundrum: housing — access to stable, affordable housing and necessary social and medical services — is the only successful way to end...
