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Cornell University

Public Health

Sustainability. Equity. Engagement.

Working Together to Change the World

Cornell University offers a campus-wide Master of Public Health (MPH) Program to help build public health leaders who are inspired and trained to ensure the health of people, animals, and the world in which we live.

Our program is founded on three pillars—Sustainability, Equity, and Engagement—that inform our approach to teaching, research, service, and practice. Our small class sizes and engaged-learning approach give our students uncommon flexibility in developing the skills they need to make an impact in their desired careers. And, by working with community partners, our students turn theory into practice while preparing to become future leaders of the public health workforce.

Our Curriculum

Our core curriculum provides students with the skills, tools, and foundational knowledge to become general public health practitioners, while our concentration courses allow our students to become specialists in their chosen field.

News & Impacts

Aerial view of a flooded town

Climate change & health: Smoke hazards, malnutrition, & flooding

Wildfires have increased dramatically in recent years, in part due to climate change. While more than 90% of wildfire-attributable deaths are due to smoke, less than 1% of wildfire funding goes to mitigating smoke hazards, with most government funding spent on preventing and extinguishing flames. Policymakers are remaking wildfire policy right now, and Dr. Hayden’s team, including Dr. Corinna Noel and two MPH students, Farida Yusuf and Hannah Morris, are conducting research funded by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability to get government…

Shreya Chitnavis

Shifting food trends in rural Cambodia

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 similarities,” she points out, including a trend where families are shifting from cooking their traditional meals at home to relying more on food away from home. As the tendency to eat ‘food-away-from-home’ increases, she explains, so does a “nutrition transition” toward more highly processed foods, which can…

dairy cow

Emerging salmonella variety in dairy cows worsens antimicrobial resistance

A study of more than 5,000 salmonella bacteria isolated over 15 years from dairy cattle samples in the Northeast reveals a significant increase in resistance to the antimicrobial medications ampicillin, florfenicol and ceftiofur.

Analyzing data derived from bovine samples submitted to Cornell’s Animal Health Diagnostic Center between 2007 and 2021, researchers also found that two salmonella serotypes, or varieties, called Dublin and Montevideo….