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Health Impacts

Advancing Health Impact with Communities

New York State

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 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...

September 20, 2024

As part of the Public Health Essentials training, participating counties design a community project to create change within their community. Each participating county receives...

September 19, 2024

The Public Health Essentials training was developed in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The training is designed for people who work — or want to work — to improve...

September 19, 2024

To help public health systems prepare for and respond to disease outbreaks (viral, vector-borne, or enteric), we leverage our faculty in two CDC Regional Centers of Excellence...

September 19, 2024

To support the work related to the national opioid epidemic, members of our team developed and launched a public-facing, interactive, near real-time overdose surveillance data...

September 19, 2024

In the summer of 2023, as wildfires draped heavy smoke over much of the northeast U.S., our team worked with rural community partners to install air-quality sensors where there...

September 19, 2024

Public Health Crisis and Risk Communication training with the NYS Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services gives New York State health and emergency response...

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