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
Cornell public health certificate closes 8 primary skill gaps for students
Recent global events have underscored a pressing truth: our ever-expanding interactions with the natural world can lead to unforeseen health challenges. At the juncture of urban development, climate change and health concerns, the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic raised the necessity to strengthen our public health infrastructure.
Through its new Public Health Essentials online certificate program, Cornell seeks to help leaders proactively address today’s global health challenges…
Creative responses to generative AI: Color-coding strategy to improve student written argumentation
Teaching innovation Award winners Amie Patchen and Kim Scholl developed a simple but powerful generative AI intervention that asks students to color-code their written text to indicate how claims are supported with evidence. Each claim is assigned a color and students use the same color to mark the corresponding evidence; for example, a student could highlight a claim about increasing mosquito populations in a blue color, and then also mark the supporting evidence about mosquitos…
Federation of American Scientists generate policy ideas to tackle extreme heat crisis
In 2023, the Federation of American Scientists engaged 85+ experts in conversations around federal policies needed to address extreme heat, yielding over 100 recommendations to address extreme heat’s impacts and build community resilience.
These recommendations represent the building blocks of a whole-of-government strategy on extreme heat, spanning six distinct topic areas: infrastructure and the built environment, workforce safety and…