Member Details | Cornell Center for Health Equity

Total members: 344

Gabriella M. Steinberg, Global and Public Health Sciences

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I seek to integrate my personal experiences and academic understandings of health disparities to work towards researching ways to improve the health outcomes of marginalized groups.

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As a Global and Public Health Sciences major, I have focused my academic career on learning about fundamental methods, knowledge systems, and interdisciplinary issues that are essential for properly addressing health disparities. Moreover, I have a background in both the sciences and social/political advocacy that will allow me to contribute unique, informed ideas and perspectives to whatever →

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I’m a general internist and a health services researcher. My overall research goal is to improve outcomes for adults with chronic health conditions. In particular I have been focused on congestive heart failure (CHF). As a fellow at WCM I studied social cognitive and sensory deficits among adults with CHF and the effect of these factors on patients’ health behaviors and outcomes. This work →

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Over the next few years I will be involved in a series of community-engaged research projects which focus on home care workers a vulnerable group of paraprofessionals. My goal is to design novel interventions which improve the quality of care delivered by home care workers to adults with heart failure and to integrate the home care workers into the overall healthcare team. Ultimately I hope that →

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My research is focused on applying omics technology and data analytics to advance health equity in forcibly displaced populations. I am interested in understanding the determinants of mental health illness in displaced persons using a multi-level approach. My goal is to identify biomarkers that are specific to this population that can help in high-throughput screening of individuals who are →

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I am a molecular biologist with advanced training in neurobehavior, data visualization and big data analysis. I have deep interest in global health and human rights. I am looking to collaborate with social scientists, lawyers, digital tools researchers, and physicians to advance the health of displaced populations.

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My research focus is to better understand cancer risk and prognosis by incorporating biospecimens and molecular tools in epidemiologic studies. Previously, I led research on cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) cohort for the last 14 years, including work on lifestyle risk factors, biomarkers, genetics and gene expression. At Weill Cornell Medicine, I am Division Chief of Epidemiology in the →

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I have extensive experience as a cancer epidemiologist. I am interested in collaborating and/or mentoring others who could benefit from an epidemiologist on their team. As the Division Chief of Epidemiology in the Department of Population Health Sciences education and mentoring are very important to me and as our division grows we aim to play a larger role in education related to training in →

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Science & Society, Technology, Biometrics, Languages, Cultures, Financial, Home, Health & Wealth

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I look forward to provide a Cambodian born Chinese ethnic refugee, raised in New York City with public and private funds, experience with public and private schools; which led to a government and non-government career in health and financial services: particularly with major corporations in New York City and Fairfax County, Virginia. I look forward to becoming a Principal Researcher with →

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Significant interest in health equity for the LGBTQ community. I take care of a lot of PReP patients and have noted that none of my patients are minority in the LGBTQ community. I would like to research barriers to care that fall outside of “access to care.” I think that its possible that physicians are not offering to minority patients.

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Goals are to learn more in order to help my patients. I would like to find members to collaborate with on projects as I have limited to no research experience.

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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 area of interest is community engagement educational equity and inclusion of URM and undocumented students addressing immigrant status as a social determinant of health.

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I have worked in the field of equity and inclusion for over eight years mainly in programming and mentoring. I hope to network and collaborate with others.

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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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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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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 passionate about bridging barriers in the care of Black and Latino patients, with a focus on language access and immigration issues in these communities. I am interested in pursuing a career in neurosurgery. I believe that health equity is not a stand-alone area of academic interest, and it is my hope to work at the intersection of these issues within the surgical sphere.

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My goal as a medical student and as a future physician is to be an advocate for my patients above all else. I have professional experience as a hospital interpreter, patient advocate, researcher, and medical assistant to contribute to the efforts of the Center for Health Equity. I aspire to be a lifelong student of my community, its history, and its future.

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We have the capability and equipment to assist with PCR testing for example for COVID-19.

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I hope to help to be able to contribute to promote health equity for all.

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Akachukwu is an undergraduate researcher at Schaffer and Nishimura lab where she investigates neural activity in the gastrointestinal tract. She is currently studying irritable bowel syndrome and visceral pain using live mice model. As an aspiring physician, Akachukwu is interested in researching the interplay of nutrition and minority health. She would love to investigate how one’s socioeconomic →

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I am currently pursuing a minor in inequality Studies- Health Equity where I have learned how public policy has affected minority populations access to quality healthcare. I also have a plethora of experience planning and executing global health projects and I would love to share my knowledge with other members. As a member of the center I would love to network with like minded people to advance →

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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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My research interests lie in developing and evaluating programs that utilize culturally sensitive evidence-based psychological practices (such as cognitive behavioral therapy or motivational interviewing) to reduce health disparities in acute care settings.

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I have experience and education as both a research assistant and clinician applying cognitive behavioral therapy to at-risk or underserved populations. At Weill Cornell my work focuses on investigating health disparities at the end of life as well as serving on a pilot trial of a novel psychological intervention for caregivers in the ICU setting. My long term goals are admission to medical school →

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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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Healthcare Administration and Entrepreneurship are my key vehicles for improving health equity across race and class by increasing access to affordable quality products services and information that empower undeserved families with the ability to overcome barriers and improve their quality of life.

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My professional expertise in business healthcare and public health can provide benefits to the Center through my national network of healthcare professionals and clinicians from top organizations students from universities and other individuals passionate about health equity. My goal is to meet other professionals and gain more valuable education in order to improve health equity through social →

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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 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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I am a clinician and implementation researcher with focus on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in impoverished settings. I have worked primarily in Chiapas, Mexico with Partners in Health. I am additionally interested in health disparities and social determinants of health from research and advocacy perspectives.

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My work is primarily focused on NCDs and community health workers in impoverished settings. I look forward to collaborations around these issues as well as health disparities and SDoH.

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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 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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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 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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I conduct research on the cardio-renal interaction using animal models in the Schaffer-Nishimura Lab at Cornell. In the past year, I have designed a stabilization setup using 3D printing to image the mouse kidney in vivo. I am very interested in using technology and engineering approach to improve our understanding of human health and the efficiency of healthcare delivery. As a member of the →

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My experiences volunteering at hospitals in Shanghai, China, Lima, Peru and the United States have helped me understand how different healthcare systems adjust to the unique needs of their patient populations. When shadowing in flushing, NY, a neighborhood with many Asian American residents, I became more aware of the importance to understand patients’ cultural and social backgrounds to deliver →

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Gabriella M. Steinberg, Global and Public Health Sciences

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Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH

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Faten Taki, PhD

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Rulla M. Tamimi, ScD

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April Tan, MPH

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Emily Taylor

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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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Daisy Torres-Baez, BA, MS

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Alexander Travis, VMD, PhD

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Emily Tseng, PhD

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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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Miguel E. Tusa Lavieri, BS

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Jessica Tyler

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Akachukwu F. Uba

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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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