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
Dr. Alistair Hayden in NYT: Is the Northeast entering its wildfire era?
Rocky and Ren Hazelman run a chicken farm in West Milford, N.J., about 10 miles south from the Jennings Creek Wildfire along the state’s border with New York.
Their 2,000 chickens require about 150 gallons of water daily, and the couple usually has no trouble collecting the needed rainwater for the job. But that is no longer possible: An extraordinarily dry fall has brought some of the worst drought conditions in the region in decades…
Introducing the Health Impacts Core
For decades, public health systems in many parts of the world have been under-equipped. In response, government and partner organizations are working to ensure integrated and adaptive systems, and to expand the skilled workforce to meet growing demands. Universities have long been key partners in these efforts to strengthen public health systems, focusing on public health education, workforce capacity building, and applied and engaged research and practice for discovery, innovation, and health impacts…
New genetic signature reveals a tropical virus on the move
For the first time, scientists have tracked the dispersion of the Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, an important first step to control future outbreaks of a disease with more than 100,000 reported cases since the 1960s.
The researchers followed a new genetic variant of the virus, and showed that it spread through the movement of both insect vectors and humans, according to the study, “Human Outbreaks of a Novel Reassortant Oropouche Virus in the Brazilian Amazon Region,” which published Sept. 19 in Nature Medicine…