An advocacy campaign to call on Mayor de Blasio to increase the number of permanent affordable housing units set aside for homeless New Yorkers
July 25, 2019
Many of you may be interested in advocating for housing for the homeless in NYC. Center member Amanda Ramsdell, MD,…
Prevalence of workplace discrimination and mistreatment in a national sample of older U.S. workers: The REGARDS cohort study
July 25, 2019
Although workplace discrimination and mistreatment (WDM) has recently drawn widespread media attention, our understanding of the prevalence of these phenomena…
Weill Department of Medicine (WDOM) Announces Fund for the Future Awardees
July 25, 2019
Center member, Dr. Shashi Kapadia is conducting clinical and health services research on the equitable delivery of healthcare to people…
Stress-Associated Neurobiological Pathway Linking Socioeconomic Disparities to Cardiovascular Disease
July 11, 2019
Lower socioeconomic status (SES) associates with a higher risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) via mechanisms that are not…
Pregnancy Outcomes Greatly Improved in Lupus Patients
July 11, 2019
Historically, pregnancy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was considered so risky that physicians counseled women to avoid becoming…
Trends in Health Equity in the United States by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Income
July 11, 2019
Has health equity improved or worsened during the past 25 years in the United States among working-aged adults?
Time to End the Manel Tradition
June 27, 2019
The National Institutes of Health is committed to changing the culture and climate of biomedical research to create an inclusive…
Students showcase their community engagement work
April 19, 2019
From Buffalo’s snowy sidewalks to Puerto Rico’s island warmth to a newly restored library in Ghana, Cornell students work in…
Cornell Center for Health Equity symposium to bridge NYC – Ithaca research
April 16, 2019
The symposium, open to the public, is a cross-campus initiative between researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Ithaca campus.…
Sickeningly Sweet
April 2, 2019
Biochemist Dr. Lewis Cantley is Finding Increasing Evidence of a Strong Connection Between Sugar and Cancer.