Member Directory - Cornell Center for Health Equity

Total members: 245

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I am excited to work with the CCHEq and will continue to draw on my expertise, experience, and responsibilities as the Executive Director of Cornell University Cooperative Extension’s New York City Programs (CUCE-NYC), Director of Outreach and Community Engagement within Cornell’s Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR), and Core Director of the Weill Cornell CTSC’s Community →

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I have long experience in NYC and upstate engaging communities in research that contributes to academic understandings and community health.

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I am a cardiovascular epidemiologist and my research has focused on health equity and community-academic team science. I specialize in designing and conducting studies of comparative effectiveness, dissemination and implementation of health care interventions. My studies embed basic science questions and use a combination of big data, assessments of social determinants of health status, clinical →

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In conducting research with diverse clinicians and patient populations, I have developed a national network of practice-based research networks designed to accelerate and disseminate research findings in order to increase therapeutic gains. I have engaged practicing clinicians in research by developing a national distance learning network. My work uses technologies such as telemedicine, health →

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Education, collaboration, research regarding legal application of ethical, equitable frameworks for allocation of resources.

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Network, collaboration
Co-chaired the CSC committee
Ethics committee member

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My laboratory has several areas of research ranging from advancing point-of-care medical diagnostics that can operate in rural/remote areas to designing and testing environmentally and economically sustainable approaches to improve food security and alleviate poverty.

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I am the Director of Cornell’s new Master of Public Health Program which is founded on core principles of sustainability equity and engagement. Our program is a natural partner for the Center both in terms of integrating students into research and service projects and in engaging a wide variety of community partners in efforts that will directly equitably and sustainably promote health and →

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Subject matter expertise in Cardiology, Cardiac Electrophysiology, and Founder of helloalfred.ai – a disease journey platform.

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Technical expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning

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My research in human-computer interaction (HCI) examines computing systems that aim to increase access to care for marginalized communities, with special interests in mental health and wellbeing, gender-based violence, and at-home caregiving.

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My work bridges technology and public health. I design and build systems with health equity goals, deploy them in field and lab experiments, and evaluate their impact. As an early-career academic, I’m looking for mentorship and networking.

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passion for health equity and an eager willingness to learn, with the ultimate goal of alleviating health inequities.

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guidance in achieving a comprehensive understanding of health equity, as well as opportunities for an undergraduate to work to promote health equity.

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I am a nephrologist and health services researcher studying health policy and care delivery in kidney disease. My research uses quasi-experimental study designs to evaluate the impact of policies and interventions on the quality, utilization, and equity of kidney care. I also assess the relationship between social risk factors and health system quality performance. My work informs the development →

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My research has demonstrated quality of care gaps across the spectrum of kidney care – spanning disease awareness, optimal medical management, and the transition to kidney replacement therapy. I hope to collaborate with researchers and clinicians studying chronic disease management, health policy, and implementation science.

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Bring clinical perspective

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Learn from researchers

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I am dedicated to overcoming obstacles in the health care system particularly concerning digital health resources access. I am interested in a career in Internal Medicine. and believe health equity should be integrated into all areas of medicine.

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As a future doctor, my primary goal is to provide compassionate and comprehensive care to all my patients. With my background as a research assistant, I am equipped to support the research initiatives of the Center for Health Equity.

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My research focuses on the design and evaluation of computing technologies that contribute to the socioeconomic development of underserved communities in low-resource environments. I work at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computing for development, and accessible technologies. I actively collaborate with governmental agencies, social enterprises, and grassroots entities →

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I am an expert in designing, building, and evaluating computing technologies for underserved communities in low-resource environments. I am looking for community partners and collaborators who are driven to achieve health equity in underserved communities worldwide.

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My area of research is health disparities in hematologic malignancies and hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). HCT is a potentially life-saving therapy for patients with hematologic malignancies including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. Given the importance of this treatment, it is critical to ensure equal access to treatment for disadvantaged populations including uninsured →

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I have a strong background in hematology, medical oncology, clinical epidemiology, and health services research. I hope to leverage my prior experience in clinical medicine and research to build new partnerships and collaborations through the Center, with the goal of generating and sharing new knowledge. I am also excited for the opportunity to participate in student education and community →

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Lung cancer immunotherapy.

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Equally involved in both translational research, thoracic surgery and community outreach my goal is to provide collaboration and networking with the center.

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I am primarily interested in exploring social determinants of health and socioeconomic disparities in Medicine, especially as they relate to alcohol liver disease and liver transplantation. My other research interests include medical education, quality improvement in Medicine, and Gastroenterology.

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I am currently an Internal Medicine Resident Physician at NYP/Cornell Medical Center. Prior to pursuing a career in Medicine, I taught high school science at an underserved public school in The Bronx through Teach for America. After residency, I am planning on starting my career as a hospitalist and potentially pursuing a fellowship in Gastroenterology. I plan on splitting my time by working →

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Reach Medical is a low threshold harm reduction in medical practice and non-profit that focuses on health equity. We are primarily located in Ithaca, New York but have patients that we serve in over 25 counties.

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We hope to continue to collaborate with the Center on issues of health equity, health disparity. We have a special interest in racism and how the system itself including medicine often worsens the health of the people it aims to serves.

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I am a registered dietitian and work through a New York State Department of Health funded public health grant called Creating Healthy Schools and Communities where I support school districts in nutrition access and physical activity promotion. I can offer my expertise in childhood nutrition and experience with working with school districts for collaboration with larger projects or education.

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I am the coordinator for the Healthy Ulster Council, a coalition of agencies and organizations serving Ulster County that meets bi-monthly for professional development, networking, and collective action. I’d like to provide members with more professional development and collaboration opportunities that center around health equity.

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As a PhD student specializing in refugee and immigrant health education, health literacy, and healthcare accessibility, I bring both personal and academic expertise to the table. As a former refugee, I deeply understand the unique challenges these populations face, particularly those with limited English proficiency. Additionally, with my background as a language lecturer and curriculum developer, →

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I am seeking collaborators who share a passion for advancing health equity, especially for refugees and immigrants facing language barriers. I am particularly interested in working with those focused on developing and implementing effective health literacy programs, as well as improving access to culturally competent care for linguistically diverse communities.

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I am a gynecologic oncology fellow working with Dr. Chapman Davis and Dr. Melissa Frey at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Cervical cancer is a largely preventable disease, with more than 90% of cervical cancers attributable to human papilloma virus (HPV). Primary prevention of HPV is available through the use of the HPV vaccination, which has been associated with up to a 90% reduction in cervical cancer →

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Community based leaders who have an interest in cancer prevention.

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I have strong data analysis skills using Python, R, Stata, QGIS, and ArcGIS. I come from urban planning and architecture background and I am good at analyzing the urban built environment factors.

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I’m looking for interesting health-related research projects. I’m interested in health equity.

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I am interested in addressing social determinants of health as they relate to nutrition. I am interested in this and have worked in this area within the context of both an urban and rural setting. I am most interested in the issue of time constraints and role overload experienced by low resource populations.

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My expertise is in the influence of social factors on nutrition and health and the relationship between nutrition and health. In my current position I work with many community organizations and have established connections in the rural communities upstate. My goal in joining the center is to network and to establish collaborations and contribute to achieving health equity.

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Expertise in the environmental psychology and its intersection with public health; experience designing and executing longitudinal, real-world, RCT interventions; interest in the effects of the built and natural environment on health, health behaviors, and health (in)equities; interest in how access to and time in nature may dampen the effect of risk factors/ stressors/ adversity on health →

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Expertise that complements my own; opportunities to leverage natural experiments;
Opportunities for secondary data analysis to examine the questions related to the direct and moderating effects of the natural environment on health.
Expertise in autism.

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I apply methods from basic affective science (e.g., behavioral coding, dyadic interaction) to understand how emotional factors are associated with individual differences in health and well-being. I examine emotional functioning in the context of close relationships, with a particular interest in dementia family caregivers.

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I am eager to work with collaborators interested in research questions related to emotion, aging, relationships, and health, and I am excited to expand my knowledge of qualitative research methods and statistical modeling techniques.

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I study and work in a diverse culture, and I hope to provide you with diverse research ideas. I hope to do my best to work with the center and collaborators to promote health and equity

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I hope to have a research discussion with collaborators on the challenges and improvements of global health differences

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Systems approaches to healthcare

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Expertise in healthcare education and delivery of healthcare

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As an anesthesiologist-clinical data scientist with New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) my research activities focus mainly on the application of epidemiology, biostatistics/analytics, and data visualization to identify associations between patients and their perioperative outcomes. I obtained a Master of Science Degree in Clinical Research Methods while studying for my →

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My long term career objective is to perform a comprehensive examination of the intersectionality of the social and demographic determinants that underlie perioperative healthcare disparities; and to develop advanced statistical regression and applied predictive modeling strategies, and clinical informatics tools to better describe and mitigate such disparities. As a physician scientist with →

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Interested in all aspects of the healthcare workforce especially home care workers. This workforce is under valued and their experiences mirror those of the patients they care for. Very interested in socio-economic issues health care access and measures to improve health care outcomes.

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Membership in the Center will spark collaboration to improve education programs and collaborate on program design and funding opportunities.

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I am interested in further exploring the concept of psychographics (the why behind consumer behavior), and its impact on healthcare consumption. One key area I have discussed within a TEDx talk, and in a professional capacity, is the rationale for the overuse of emergency room services, compared to primary care. With the cultural movement geared toward quality of care, and punishment for chronic →

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Experience: Six years of healthcare administration experience, primarily in managed care.
Goals: To further my research interests, and help others within my areas of interest. Sharpen my research writing abilities. Publish/co-publish research in the near future. Build relationships with healthcare-centered fellow Cornelians.

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I am a political scientist studying the relationships between local politics, and public health political decision-making or policy outcomes. My research seeks to explain public health policy outcomes for the most disadvantaged Americans – persons in deep poverty, often with complex medical and behavioral health needs – who rely on public programs to address these needs, yet in many cases such →

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I am always excited to connect with communities, policy makers, and scientists, studying and or working to improve policy processes to promote health equity.

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I would like to offer my passion for patient advocacy, and use my experience as a black physician to address health inequities that are prominent in the community and affect a lot of my family.

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I am looking for expertise, experience with addressing health inequities, to share ideas and brain storm action plans. I would like to be involved in community outreach and empowerment to address social determinants of health.

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Megan J. Wolff is a public health historian focused on social medicine and mental health policy. At the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts she serves as a policy researcher and seminar coordinator. She regularly produces white papers and editorials addressing the mental health impacts of inequitable practices such as incarceration of the mentally ill, the →

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Since graduating from the Center for History and Policy of Public Health at Columbia, I have taken a particular interest in social medicine, and the efforts of health care workers, legislators, and others to make medicine more effective by increasing equity and access to resources across society. In many ways, the goal of the revolutionaries of 1848 was self-determination, without which their →

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Experience in caring for a diverse patient population seeking quality reproductive healthcare while promoting the tenants of patient advocacy, community engagement, and policy.

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Assistance in translating patient experience to data which can be used to improve the quality of care we provide and highlights areas of disparity and opportunities for growth.

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My research interest lies in the intersection of statistics, mental health, and social and behavioral sciences. My interests in statistics include social network analysis, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, Bayesian modeling, latent variable modeling, mixture models, and methods of integrating and analyzing complex structured data.

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My current and past positions, as well as my dissertation research, have provided me with opportunities to collaborate with researchers from many disciplines, including statistics, epidemiology, sociology, the behavioral sciences, computer science, and health informatics. I have worked with various types of data, including insurance claims data, electronic health record data, survey, →

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I would love to offer my expertise in suicide prevention research and skills of modeling large datasets (EHR, population-based surveys)

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Mental health organizations and nonprofit/public health leaders across New York State, suicide prevention community partners, faculty expertise in health promotion and clinical practices

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I can offer my skills in quantitative, qualitative, and spatial analyses and research experiences in maternal and child health behaviors, food environment, and health equity.

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I look forward to collaborating with like-minded scholars to research, inform, and develop effective, sustainable, and equitable food programs and policies that address chronic health disparities.

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I would like to attend seminars about health equity research, learning how sociologists carry research in a clinical background. I can participate into the interviews in the community, for better gathering information about the social topics.
I am passionate about learning how to communicate science and write something to the general public.
In summer 2025, I wish to have some volunteer →

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I am looking forward to having a learning experience engaged in community or clinical settings. I want to learn about basic sociological/biomedical research methods. I can work online during winter and full-time during summer break. Thank you!

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I’m a graduate student and sociology researcher from Cornell University who works on the sociology of health and medicine, and health inequality research. I’m trained in quantitative and mixed methods, and I’ve also TAed for two courses related to health and medicine. I’m interested in collaborating on research related to public health policy and the cross-cultural and/or cross-ethnical →

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I’m hoping to access more research and training opportunities

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I’m most interested in increasing access to healthcare for patients of all different backgrounds.

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I’d like to meet others who are passionate in health equity and community engagement.

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I have a background in community and global health monitoring and evaluation, project implementation, and policy writing prior to completing medical school. Currently, I work in the emergency department where my patients are often marginalized. I am interested in researching health inequalities based on social economic determinants of health. I look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with →

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I am triply boarded in general surgery, complex general surgical oncology, and colon and rectal surgery. My clinical focus is high quality the management of gastrointestinal cancers. I am an NIH funded investigator, who has been performing health services research since I was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar in 2008.

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My current research efforts revolve around surgical education and workforce issues as well as digital health.

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As someone with experience at the intersection of Government and Health Policy, I provide insight into the previous, current, and future legislative landscape for Health Policy. From SUD treatment to the costs of preventable medical errors, I have gained invaluable knowledge and research experience from my Health Policy internships. These internships have allowed me to polish important skills such →

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Being such a broad, expansive field, I would hope to expand my knowledge and experience in Health Policy in any way I can. Whether it be conducting research on an entirely new area of Health Policy or measuring the effectiveness of familiar policy proposals under new metrics, I am interested in taking on whatever opportunity would expand my background in this complex field. I hope to someday work →

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My expertise includes Human-Computer Interaction, Interface Design, 3D Virtual environment design/development, usability testing, user experience, as well as physical space design– healthcare/residential/commercial environments. I am a certified metaverse expert, licensed interior designer (Korea/US), and architectural engineer (Korea).

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I am interested in using my skills and knowledge to develop innovative Metaverse systems (with an automated/embodied agent) that effectively facilitate/support/monitor emotion/mood regulation and promote mental health and wellness. I am looking for collaborators interested in the topic with expertise in emotion regulation/mental health/health communication and NIH grant writing.

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I would like to offer my 20+year clinical experience working with underserved population, my back ground is infectious disease/HIV medicine.

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Expand issues community and provider side re; barriers to care, adherence medications, and implementation research

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I specialize in evidence-based and human-centered healthcare design. I have focused on two areas: the development of non-pharmacological interventions for improving quality of life and quality of care for patients, and the optimization of healthcare work environments for clinicians. My team is working on developing novel, educational, environmental, and technological solutions to manage symptoms →

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I am a recently tenured associate professor in the Department of Design + Environmental Analysis, a graduate field member of the Department of Systems Engineering, and for this semester housed at the Weill Cornell Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics.
As a healthcare design scholar, I aim to fuel innovation to expand access to equitable, high-quality, and affordable healthcare; reduce unnecessary →

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I bring years of experience in translational medicine, with a research focus on understanding the tumor microenvironment’s role in lymphoma development and progression. Our goal is to translate these insights into improved stratification strategies and therapeutic options for high-risk patients. In our lab, we combine patient sample analysis with the development of pre-clinical models to address →

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I’m looking for a collaborator who is equally passionate about applying research to address health disparities and drive real-world impact. Ideally, I seek someone with a shared commitment to translating scientific discoveries from the lab into clinical trials and ultimately shaping health policy to improve public health outcomes

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I am a pre-med student studying in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations hoping to get involved in research that focuses on health equity. I am working towards an inequality studies minor as well and looking for a way to bridge the gap between my ILR background in policy and social justice and medicine. I was referred by Dr. Madeline Sterling whose research on cardiovascular disease and →

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The combination of my ILR education and my previous clinical experiences (e.g. shadowing at NYU Perelman Emergency Department last summer) have shaped my view of healthcare and medicine while considering the inequality in the healthcare system. I hope that I can gain more insight into the issues of health equity by joining the Center and that I can benefit from mentorship opportunities as well as →

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As a demographer by training, I possess extensive familiarity with contextual factors such as income, education, population composition, and various other socioeconomic and demographic indicators at different geographic units. This knowledge is derived from my experience working with census and survey data in both the United States and globally. Additionally, I have expertise in processing and →

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I am seeking collaboration for paper and grant writing, particularly focusing on mechanisms that link environmental exposures to health outcomes such as mortality.

Community Member

Naa-Solo Tettey, MPH EdD

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Jennifer Sarah. Tiffany, PhD

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Jonathan N. Tobin, PhD

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Jennifer Tolkoff, JD

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Alexander Travis, VMD, PhD

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Ajay Tripuraneni, MD

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Emily Tseng, PhD

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I’m an undergraduate student involved with or seeking opportunities for health equity research or practice

Taran Tummala, Biology and Society

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Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, MD, MBA, MAS

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I’m a clinician practicing patient-centered care and advocating for equitable access to care

Judy Tung, MD

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I’m a researcher involved with health equity research or practice, I’m a graduate student involved with or seeking opportunities for health equity research or practice

Sanish Varghese

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Aditya Vashistha, PhD

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John L. Vaughn, MD

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Jonathan Villena-Vargas, MD

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Nabeel Wahid, MD

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Community Member

Justine L. Waldman, MD

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I’m an educator committed to diversity, equity and inclusion education, I’m a community-based leader interested in collaboration to improve health equity

Ninette Warner, Masters in Nutrition

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I’m a researcher involved with health equity research or practice, I’m an educator committed to diversity, equity and inclusion education, I’m a graduate student involved with or seeking opportunities for health equity research or practice

Makda G.. Weatherspoon

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I’m a researcher involved with health equity research or practice, I’m a clinician practicing patient-centered care and advocating for equitable access to care

Emily Webster, MD

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I’m a graduate student involved with or seeking opportunities for health equity research or practice

Hanxue Wei

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Academic Member