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Health Impacts

Advancing Health Impact with Communities

Impacts

Our faculty and staff work extensively across New York State and beyond. We endeavor to improve public health systems across four main areas, including emergency preparedness, workforce development, social determinants of health, and environment and health.

Explore our stories of impact below.

November 20, 2025

It’s National Rural Health Day! Cornell’s Health Impacts Core (CHIC) and Cornell Public Health faculty are doing a lot to support public health and...

August 25, 2025

Unlock the Power of Risk Communication and Emergency Management Are you a rural public health professional looking to enhance your skills in risk management? Our comprehensive...

August 20, 2025

The Enhancing Public Health Strategic Skills Guide empowers public health workers, educators, and trainers to invest in their growth by building essential strategic...

May 1, 2025

More than 500,000 veterans live in New York State. Over half of these veterans are 65 or older and 28% live with a disability. Clear Path for Veterans (CPV) is a multi-service...

April 25, 2025

A new Enteric Disease Outbreak Data Analysis Training course is available! This interactive, self-study course, based on a 2-day tabletop simulation, is designed for local...

February 14, 2025

Avian influenza, often called bird flu, has become a growing concern across the U.S. The highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza (HPAI) has become widespread among wild...

February 12, 2025

The Cornell Initiative on Aging and Climate Adaptation is an applied research collaboration across Cornell Tech, Cornell Weill, and Cornell Public Health, focused on improving,...

January 31, 2025

Cornell University’s Health Impacts Core has developed an interactive online capacity-building intervention called Public Health Essentials (PHE) that helps...

December 13, 2024

Cornell faculty and staff in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in partnership with the University of...

December 12, 2024

Dr. Karla Hanson and her team were faced with the problem of bots attempting to enroll in their online research study. The study was aimed at collecting data in a rural community...

December 6, 2024

In times of crisis and disaster, government and charitable organizations cannot always respond quickly or adequately enough. Mutual aid (MA) is a grassroots response to...

December 3, 2024

Dr. Alistair Hayden of the Cornell Health Impacts Core recently spoke with lawmakers and the local news about PFAS contamination across New York State. Dr. Hayden spoke at a...

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