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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

MPH student Gauri Vanjari holding the Gold Award at HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition

Maternal health technology earns Cornell students international award

Cornell students received international recognition and a cash prize from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology during its One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition 2025.

The competition brought international teams to devise and present practical solutions for a sustainable future, pitching their innovations to an international panel of investors, clinicians and tech experts. “Representing the United States and Cornell University on such a stage was an incredible honor,” says Gauri Vanjari, MPH Class…Read more

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CVM Discovery Digest Fall 2025

Krysten Schuler, Associate Research Professor; Brenda Hanley, Research Associate; Alistair Hayden, Assistant Professor of Practice; & Danielle Yerdon, MPH ’25

The view from Roger Gendron's front porch, in Hamilton Beach, Queens, after Winter Storm Elliot hit in December 2022. Gendron, president of the New Hamilton Beach Civic Association, has been working with New York Sea Grant for years to document the frequent flooding in his neighborhood.

‘Ground truth’: Flood monitoring tool gives NYS residents a voice

Danielle Eiseman, Associate Director of the Cornell Health Impacts Core

Fruit bats hang upside down

Bat droppings reveal clues about the viruses they carry

Raina Plowright, Rudolf J. and Katherine L. Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine

E.Coli Bacteria Cells

Deadly pathogens found in commercial raw cat foods

Laura Goodman, Assistant Professor