CCHEq Member Leads Cornell Team Fighting Food Insecurity

CCHEq Member Leads Cornell Team Fighting Food Insecurity

Cornell Professor and CCHEq member Laurie Miller is heading a collaborative university team offering community-based policy, engineering, and design expertise to transform a rural food pantry into a community resource hub. The team is working with Enfield Food Distribution’s Executive Director Jean Owens to develop a strategic plan, strengthen governance, register as a nonprofit, apply…

Former CCHEq Co-Director Jamila Michener testifies to Congress on the role of universal health insurance.

Jamila Michener Testifies to House on Role of Universal Health Insurance

Cornell professor Jamila Michener testified March 29 before a congressional committee that universal health insurance coverage would not only address health inequities among people of color, but strengthen the U.S. democracy. “Access to high quality, affordable health care offered to all, in ways that convey dignity and respect, has great potential to amplify the voices…

Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell University Establish Cornell Center for Health Equity

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus have established a new center to better understand why health outcomes vary among demographic groups. Through partnerships with communities in New York City and central New York, the Cornell Center for Health Equity will generate new evidence on how to eliminate such differences with the goal of…