Member Directory

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I am looking forward to a collaborative and supportive environment in implementing my research ideas and plans for decreasing the burden of cardiovascular diseases in rural communities of the US.

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I am highly educated in psychological disorders and ways to access resources to improve one’s mental health.

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I hope to better focus and direct my above research interests through collaboration with colleagues who are focused on health equity while hopefully identifying a group of mentors who can also help guide this work.

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Being a human biology major at Hunter College I have the opportunity to study a broad range of disciplines that contribute to the health and wellness of human beings. This includes studying the psychology and biology of humans as well as studying the health system in which we depend on. With my studies I will have extensive knowledge and resources at my disposal to contribute to the progression of →

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I’d like to network with others interested in health equity and potentially develop new collaborations. I’d also like to contribute to educational and policy efforts to promote health equity in medical education.

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I have extensive leadership experience in national and international organizations and professional associations that relates to global health and population-based medicine. My wide range of experience in developing service programs educational curricula and research in these fields will bring added value to the current faculty and resources at the center. I am looking forward to collaborating and →

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Networking with others interested in this area. Finding a networking of basic sciences researchers in health equity.

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I believe that my focus on work and workforce related factors can add value to the center. I especially interested in the link between working conditions and outcomes for workers and patients, a link that has the capacity to inform a host of equity related research questions.

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I have an extensive background in Women’s imaging particularly in Breast imaging and Ultrasound and I have concentrated most of my teaching efforts in these areas. I am also working on ways to increase the representation of underrepresented minority faculty and trainees in our department of Radiology.

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Food insecurity and maternal health.

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I have prior experience with community education and outreach. I also have experience with clinical research and trial development. I hope to work with like-minded colleagues to ensure that the health of our communities (especially as it relates to cancer) is improved and not dependent on your race or socioeconomic status.

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I am the Director of the Methods Core of Weill Cornell ALACRITY Center for Late- and Mid-Life Mood Disorders (P50 MH113838) which focuses on behavioral interventions improve the care of older and middle-aged adults with mood disorders treated in the community. I can facilitate connections between CCHEq and ALACRITY. I can also provide statistical guidance to CCHEq investigators in their grant →

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I bring to the Center deep understanding of the interplay among policy organizational and clinical factors that contributed to lack of equity in health care access use and outcomes. I also bring expertise with multiple types of population data to address equity issues. I hope to expand my collaborative network and be inspired and encouraged in general.

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Received my doctorate in health education from Teachers College Columbia University. Currently working at the Division of General Internal Medicine at WCM and teaching part-time undergraduate communication and health courses.

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I aim to connect with others who are dedicated to addressing health disparities so that I may learn from those who have come before me, and collaborate on future projects. As a surgical resident, I hope that my perspectives will also serve as a resource to students as they navigate school, residency, and research environments.

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I have been working in the area of substance use research for 11 years with a focus on health services that sensitively meet the needs of people who use drugs using a combination of epidemiological methods economic analysis and mixed methods approaches. My expertise in this subject area will help ensure that substance use research is represented in this center to promote health equity research for →

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I am interested in networking and learning from others in the Center to advance the collective work being done to reduce health disparities, particularly in the areas of nutrition and health.

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Many health equity interventions are now leveraging technologies. My expertise involves evaluating the usability of technology and how it fits the needs and goals of diverse populations. Ensuring the needs and values of users are met ensures that solutions may be equitably utilized. I would like to be connected with others in the Cornell and WCM community doing health equity research to gain →

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Since my recent appointment at Weill Cornell Medical Center, I have continued working with a diverse patient base across the lifespan, evaluating neurosurgical candidates in their native Spanish and also in Russian. Doing so has provided their neurosurgical care teams with valuable insights regarding the patients’ treatment planning and prognostication. Moreover, I have become an integral member →

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As a physician and clinician educator in Tompkins county I bring detailed knowledge and experience regarding the local healthcare delivery systems and its patient population. Through greater collaboration with the CCHEq I hope to partner physicians in training with local researchers network with community leaders and receive as well as provide education that will increase the health of the local →

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I am the Swanson Endowed Director of Shelter Medicine at the veterinary college. Our Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell, founded in 2005, is one of only four comprehensive shelter medicine training programs in the world. The program has trained 3 residents and 20 shelter medicine specialty interns since 2008, as well as thousands of veterinarians and veterinary students in both classroom →

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I have an interdisciplinary background in Religious Studies with a focus on medical anthropology and bioethics as well as an epidemiological research background at the NIH. After undergoing a train-the-trainer communication program at Vital Talk, I am hoping to find through the Center collaborators interested in applying these techniques to improve care for vulnerable patients.

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I have over 10 years of experience in leading large-scale medical technology development projects. My past and current work in the areas of wearable health monitoring and machine learning will allow me to serve as an effective technology collaborator on digital health projects with the Center for Health Equity.

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As a Latina first-generation college graduate, born and raised in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York, my earliest life experiences have molded my career trajectory as a social epidemiologist and health disparities researcher. As a Center affiliate member, my goals are to strengthen existing partnerships and develop new collaborations with faculty across Cornell to design and evaluate →

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Cancer disparities persist. As a gynecologic oncologist, I am uniquely positioned to address these issues. It is easy to become siloed in medicine. My hope would be to network with other researchers and perhaps find common ground to collaborate or at bare minimum, hear about new/interesting developments in other fields of medicine.

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I am interested in collaborating with and learning from collaborators, strategies for social determinants of health and cross-cultural care curriculum development. I am also looking forward to the possibilities for new ideas for strategic development and enhancement of pipeline programs.

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Gynecological cancer – gastrointestinal cancer – health disparities – global health

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Interested in fostering connections between Weill Cornell and the Ithaca campus.

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I would like to collaborate with other interested members around creating holistic recruitment and retention policies programs and practices of graduate students. Additionally I am interested in trading and creating ideas for building inclusive classroom practices and applied learning opportunities as they related to teaching population health.

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I hope to network with Center members given my various roles and to find ways to work together to advance goals to reduce health disparities, particularly in relation to the role of nutrition in health inequities. I am interested in representing not only my own professional interests, but the interests of various groups that I represent.

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I have a background in information technology and using technology as a tool for documenting oral and historical memory as archival record of generational trauma that can pave a path for healing and reconciliation. I have presented at Columbia University’s Annual Conference of The Historical Dialogues, Justice, & Memory Network, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) →

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I study disparities in risky health behaviors, such as poor diet and physical inactivity, and disparities in health conditions such as obesity. My goals are to shed light on the causes of risky health behaviors, the consequences of risky health behaviors, and the effects of policies and programs to modify risky health behaviors. I also enjoy teaching and mentoring the next generation of scholars.

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I previously worked with Physicians For Peace, a non-governmental organization, dedicated to improving quality of burn care in low and middle income countries through educational outreach missions and visited burn centers in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Ghana, and Bolivia. I have over a decade of experience with clinical research on all aspects of burn care. Like many in the →

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As a gynecologic oncologist, I am both a surgeon and provide chemotherapy for my patients with expertise in cancer care, palliative care discussions and preventative care. I am interested in networking with others interested in health equity with the goal of developing new collaborations to improve care among underserved cancer populations.

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I will be able to contribute my robust analytical skills in epidemiology, human rights lens, and insights due to grassroots national and international public health programming experiences. I hope to gain mentorship and collaboration opportunities.

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I have been working in and conducting research about immigrant communities and communities of color for more than 25 years. My combined experience as an academic public health researcher urban policy and planning professor and previously as the deputy executive director of an immigrant health organization provides a unique perspective on questions of health care access and health promotion in →

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Collaboration

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I hope to contribute to these research endeavors from my linguistics and political experiences.

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My experiences as a volunteer in the triage of the Emergency Room in Philippine General Hospital in the Philippines inspired my interest in the Cornell Center for Health Equity. I became more aware of the health inequities within the healthcare and medical system when I found that patients could not read medicine labels in English nor could they afford and access basic medical needs such as pain →

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My strength lies in my academic and clinical experiences heretofore—I have worked and taught widely disparate environments. For 5 years, I was clinical faculty at an urban community hospital in Bronx, NY. That hospital is under-resourced and the community is underserved in every regard. I bore witness to the frustrations and injustices endured by those on the losing end of health inequity. →

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I am an expert in the design implementation and evaluation of computing technologies that aim to solve problems in health equity. I am looking for community partners and collaborators with medical and health expertise that have in need for or are excited about new technology-based interventions that will positively impact health equity.

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I hope to foster collaborations in both education and research across the NYC and Ithaca campuses particularly through medical education for medical students and residents who rotate through electives and courses on both campuses. I am actively involved in recruitment and curriculum development for the newly ACGME – accredited Internal Medicine Residency Training Program based at Cayuga Medical →

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Research partnerships, collaborations, and mentorship opportunities.

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My experience in language barriers research has the potential in combination with networking and collaboration with other professionals in the Center from Health Equity to expand the reach of my work into changes in policy to improve care for patients.

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My expertise is in applied research methods, focused on development, implementation and evaluation of nutrition programs designed to reduce inequities. I have experience working with low-income families in New York to understand food insecurity and other stresses that influence parenting and feeding practices. I have also worked in several low-income countries in Africa and Asia, again doing →

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Through my sexual violence prevention research at Cornell, pharmaceutical outcomes and policy research at the University of Florida, and healthcare policy research at the Massachusetts General Hospital, I have developed my research interests in health equity and skills. At Cornell’s Center for Health Equity, I hope to contribute my skills and experiences to research endeavors, further develop my →

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My research with farmworkers (interviews, focus group discussions, surveys) provides the groundwork for developing materials and activities (workshops, clinics, and consultations) that respond to farmworker priorities. Through this iterative process, we collaborate with farmworkers in building individual and community capacity designed to fulfill aspirations and address daily challenges. Since →

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I have an undergraduate education in health policy, enabling me to understand current trends in policy research relating to health. I am also pursuing a Master of Health Administration. The combination of my degrees enables me to understand the social and clinical components that produce health. I hope to use my expertise in health policy and management to drive changes in heath outcomes of →

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With my research experiences, I hope to be introduced to valuable mentors through networks at Cornell’s Center for Health Equity to allow for my continued growth in the field of public health and medicine.

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As an undergraduate student minoring in health equity I hope to potentially collaborate with other members and hear about the current research being conducted.

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I hope to share my passion for healthcare and medical sciences with the Cornell Center for Health Equity in bridging the divide that currently exists within many of the research labs and the medical school/ health center rooted in Cornell.

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I am interested in collaborating with domain and community expertise.

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I hold degrees in sociology and public health and conduct work that speaks to the intersections of these two fields – adopting both a theoretical view and a perspective rooted in real-world applications. I have a growing publication record in the sociomedical sciences, including original research involving mixed methods, and I have roughly 10 years of experience conducting research and doing →

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My career has focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients with endocrine tumors. I hope that I can combine my expertise in the diagnosis and management of primary hyperaldosteronism with the resources and expertise in the Center in carrying out studies on a community level in populations that suffer from health disparities.

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My long-term career goal is to be a physician-scientist conducting research on health disparities related to conflict and displacement. This is notably relevant in my native country of Lebanon, where there are an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees displaced. I have conducted several years of service and research among Syrian refugee populations. In 2014 I was awarded funding through Columbia →

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My experience ranges from basic to clinical research at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school level. During my MS in Global Health, my research focused on the social determinants of health for West Bank Palestinians and consisted of a literature review of this topic in the context of settlement and occupation. At the medical school level my research thus far has focused on →

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Networking faculty involvement with the perspectives on the Changing Health Care System Course for all first year medical residents and more faculty involvement in the Rogers Colloquium.

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I am Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University with a teaching focus on cross-sectoral collaborations to combat global health threats.

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My research program is community centered. I have conducted studies focusing on childhood obesity in diverse early childhood contexts, low-income, and U.S. Latino families. For example, I have engaged in research activities with participants in: (a) Flea markets and Laundromats in low-income community settings in San Antonio, TX; (b) Hispanic Church settings in San Antonio, Texas; (c) Family child →

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I believe I can contribute to the Center by addressing gaps in health disparity within the field of Endocrine Oncology. Given my background in clinical research, my goal is to identify factors associated with the under-diagnosis of primary aldosteronism in disparate populations and accordingly implement novel platforms to target these populations, eliminate disparities, and improve diagnostic →

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I am especially interested in health equity for patients with severe brain injury and have advanced a civil rights/disability rights agenda on their behalf building upon advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of this population. To that end, in additional to addressing the ethical and normative obligations we owe to this population through my work at Weill Cornell Medicine and →

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My research examines the interactions between environmental change inequality and health in global settings. Lake Victoria in Kenya and in Cambodia provides rich case studies for better understanding these phenomena. Cornell Center for Health Equity I look forward to opportunities to collaborate and engage with a broad network health equity and to engage new tools and opportunities to support the →

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Informed by my own personal immigrant background, and over a decade of experience serving in the private and nonprofit sectors; and empowered by my graduate work, I hope to be able to contribute to the Center’s initiatives.

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I use focused ethnographic methods, including semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, participatory observations, free listing, pile sorting, social mapping, and photo elicitation to explore the priorities, preferences, and value tradeoffs people make related to their nutrition decisions.

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Gynecologic oncologist

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I am a neurologist specialized in neurological rehabilitation and a neuroscientist with background in neurophysiology, neuroimaging and molecular neuroimaging. I have been extramural PI of the NIH for almost 11 year and Co-Founded NeuroHealing Pharmaceuticals, Inc a startup company. My experience comes from the clinical field, integrating pre-clinical data to form new human background in my fields →

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My main approach involves the use of molecular neuroimaging with selected radiopharmaceuticals and MRI aiming at: 1- Finding new biomarkers for the disease of interest by selecting or creating a ligand that targets specific neurotransmitter systems believed to participate in the underlying neurological disorder; 2- Understanding the specific pharmacodynamics underneath the pathophysiology of the →

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With research in both wet lab and soft science lab environments under my belt, I bring to the table both an interest in and an experienced approach to research that has one foot in the life sciences and the other in the humanities. As articulated in my response to the previous question, my academic path so far leads rather directly to the doorstep of work such as that done by the Center, equipping →

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As a surgeon-scientist in training, my background in health policy, advocacy, and health services research adds a unique perspective to the center. I hope to network with like-minded individuals, and to leverage these connections not only in collaborative research projects but also in building local and state advocacy into our work and the work of this center.

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Through the Center I hope to dedicate my time research training and knowledge in inequality studies to benefit the work of the Center. I would like to contribute to a research project where assistance is needed and exchange my time and efforts for the development of skills in conducting health equity research and deepening my understanding of disparities in health access. I hope to work directly →

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I have a long-standing interest in epidemiological research and hope to get involved in more collaborations research and educational opportunities.

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Worked in healthcare finance. Networking and collaborations,

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I am an Internal Medicine-trained primary care physician that continues to serve a predominantly under-resourced Hispanic community. My research aims to understand and leverage community strengths to overcome systemic inequities, and I look forward to collaborations to advance that aim through the Center for Health Equity. As a first-generation Latino physician, I am also deeply committed to →

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My experience at HSS in arthroplasty research can bring this area of research interest to the Center to foster collaborations.

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I have a doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership and have done extensive mixed-method research in the areas of adult learning and success especially as they pertain to physician-scientists. My research studies are based on the work of leading adult learning theorists including Kolb Brookfield Freire Deci & Ryan and Mezirow. For nearly 22 years I served as administrative director of the →

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I am a board-certified Cardiologist with training in advanced heart failure; and a health services researcher with a Master’s of Science in Clinical Epidemiology & Health Services Research and a special interest in geriatric medicine. I bring a unique blend of skills and interests to the Center as an emerging leader in the growing field of Geriatric Cardiology. I believe that my growing →

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Telemedicine administration, clinical research design goal, and increase collaboration network.

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I’m excited to bring my public health mixed methods social science and risk communication experience to this group. I’ve worked in urban and rural settings with youth and adults clinicians and academics across an array of disciplines policy makers powerful research participants and extremely vulnerable ones. I like thinking about how to explore and talk about these issues so they register. Part of →

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I have spent the last 5 years working toward the goal of one day being a global physician leader. I first began this journey as an undergraduate student studying the Chikungunya virus, which caused an outbreak that ravaged many developing countries in the Caribbean and Latin America throughout 2014. In 2016, I was awarded a Princeton Project 55 fellowship, which is given to graduating students who →

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I bring years of clinical experience and have worked collaboratively with research teams from several institutions in my role at REACH Medical and previously. As a member, I hope to continue to network, form research collaborations and gain insights into best practices on education for residents and others on topics related to health equity.

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Family Physicians are trained to treat and care for the whole person-physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. I have an interest in Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity and integrating The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care. As student demographics at post-secondary institutions become increasingly ethnically and →

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I have expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods, social-behavioral intervention research, and program evaluation. I hope to collaborate on community-based research with other researchers, students, and local organizations.

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I hold a master’s degree in Community Change and Civic Leadership focused on environmental justice. I have been working with Physicians for National Health Program (PNHP) and Single Payer New York (SPNY) for passage of single payer health legislation on both the federal and state level. Lobbying legislators in Washington, DC and Albany, NY with coalition members for federal and state legislation →

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As an individual with hopes of pursuing medicine myself, I graduated with a Biology degree with an emphasis on sociology and diversity. Through the Center for Health Equity and the Diversity Center of Excellence we hope to debunk the path to medicine for students and increase the quality of physician-patient relations to address the growing diversity in the national patient population.

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I have been a primary healthcare provider for adolescent and young adults for greater than 20 years. Working primarily with underserved and underrepresented minorities (my preference) I have had an extensive opportunity to address health inequity and disparities. I have developed community programs and collaborated with other agencies and institutions to improve the quality of healthcare for these →

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I hope to get change in the healthcare system or learn how I could better position myself to influence change in the future. I used to be a personal trainer and I understand the importance of health promotion and preventative care. If we could focus on prioritizing this type of care where it is applicable we could prevent and reduce chronic disease prevalence significantly. Also if the hospital →

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As Founder of BLMiM, I’ve been afforded the opportunity to navigate the diversity community at WCM and NY region. These experiences have garnered a network which, in partnership with the Center for Health Equity, would certainly aid in coordinating the most impactful opportunities needed for our underrepresented youth. Additionally, the Center’s academic resources would assist in establishing →

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I serve as the Diversity Champion for our department and have established a collaboration with Dr. Lynne Holden Founder of Mentoring in Medicine to sponsor labs in our Neurosurgical Innovations space for students interested in the health sciences. This collaboration and experience provides a connection to students who could benefit from the initiatives of the Center. I have also pursued Healthcare →

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I have a broad range of experience both in terms of settings (rural, suburban, urban, racial/ethnic diversity and LGBTQIA+ populations which allows me to bring many perspectives to complex issues related to health equity. I hope to explore potential collaborations between the Cornell Cooperative Extension system and the Cornell Center for Health Equity. Also I am interested in building on my →

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Health equity research; mentoring young faculty in health equity research careers; developing cross-institutional collaborations to promote health equity research and health services research; work with young scholars interested in developing research in the space where technology/innovation meets social determinants of health and health equity; advocate and promote diversity and inclusion at the →

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I have worked all over New York City for the past 6 years and I have extensive experience in human services having worked with both adolescents and adults with a particular focus on under-served populations. Prior to my current position as a Prevention Navigator I worked with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as an Outreach Specialist conducting outreach and health education focused →

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I hope to contribute to work that dismantles health Inequities for people of color that may have no insurance or limited medical coverage. Community advocacy and advancement in studies for women’s health is an important goal for me as well. Research and advances for diseases like Endometriosis, Postpartum depression and PCOS needs to be expanded. Diversity in Executive Staff, Clinicians Students →

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Pediatric Critical Care fellowship director I am looking to increase awareness of healthcare disparities and how they impact our clinical care and patient outcomes.

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Having recently completed a PhD at Cornell on community, race and the construction of identity, I am currently completing NYS licensure as a social worker. I have worked on a number of health-related projects in Tompkins County over the past three years and am excited to have the opportunity to foster synergies at the intersections of Cornell and the wider community. Through membership of the →

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As a public health practitioner and registered dietitian, I have over 11 years of experience engaging with community collaboratives with a diversity of stakeholders to design, implement, monitor and evaluate activities that advance health equity in Tompkins County and its surrounding region. Over the past three years I’ve seen tremendous growth in our organization’s ability to identify and act →

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As a junior investigator in Infectious Diseases and in Healthcare Policy and Research I am eager to create research synergies with Center investigators. With the help of my mentors I am developing skills in mixed-methods health services research economic evaluations of healthcare interventions and in research related to infectious diseases and substance use disorder. These skills can be used to →

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I am a junior at Mount Holyoke College majoring in Neuroscience and a minor in Critical Social Thought. I am interested in the subject of health equity and mental health treatment in the underserved communities in particular. In the past, I was a volunteer at Kurn Hattin Home for Children (VT, USA) as well as at the Center for Curative Pedagogy and Differentiated Learning (Pskov, Russia) where I →

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My hope is that I can marry my basic/translational research background with an exposure to larger scale epidemiological research to identify meaningful opportunities to improve health equity. Furthermore, I am excited by the prospect of identifying and contributing to community outreach opportunities.