IMPACT STORIES
  • Cornell research focuses attention on racial disparities in lung cancer screening

    Ongoing work from researchers affiliated with the Cornell Center for Health Equity could help expand lung cancer screening eligibility for Black individuals, a particularly vulnerable population.

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The vision of the Cornell Center for Health Equity is to nurture durable academic-community partnerships to inform our research agenda, integrate community perspectives into our research, and develop an infrastructure to disseminate and implement the results of our work with the overarching goal of achieving health equity locally, regionally, and nationally.

  • Online health literacy tool achieves nearly 1M organic visitors

    An online health information tool designed for people with low health literacy that is affiliated with the Cornell Center for Health Equity and Weill Cornell Medicine has seen more than 800,000 site visits across more than 200 countries.

  • CCHEq partnership results in thousands of health equity screenings

    A collaboration between The Cornell Center for Health Equity and a local healthcare system has resulted in thousands of screenings for social determinants of health, the factors outside of traditional medical care that influence health outcomes.

  • Former CCHEq co-director at forefront of healthcare access discussions

    Throughout her academic career, the intersection of poverty, racial inequality and public policy – and its impact on individuals – has moved Jamila Michener. Her 2018 book exploring how Medicaid reinforces disparities won an award.