2025 CCHEq Grant Awards Announced
Congratulations to the Principal Investigators and projects selected this year!
2025 Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium
The annual Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium, “Advancing Health Equity Together,” took place in NYC on March 24, 2025.
CCHEq Member Leads Cornell Team Fighting Food Insecurity
Cornell Professor and CCHEq member Laurie Miller is heading a collaborative university team to transform a rural food pantry into a community resource hub.
CCHEq Members Contribute to Health Equity Position Statements
Christopher Gonzalez co-authored “Incorporating Anti-racist Principles Throughout the Research Lifecycle: A Position Statement from the Society of General Internal Medicine” in the May 14, 2024
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…
CCHEq grant funds nation-wide study on Black experiences with gynecologic cancer
Three Cornell students have launched their nation-wide study to understand experiences of Black patients with gynecologic cancers, funded by a partnership building grant from the Cornell Center for Health Equity.
2 CCHEq directors discuss racism in U.S. health care in ‘Racism in America’ webinar
Jamila Michener and Dr. Susana Morales were among four Cornell faculty members interviewed about how the pandemic has revealed race-based discrepancies in health care in the “Racism in America” webinar series.
Dr. Erica Phillips receives grant in support of COVID-19 research
Dr. Erica Phillips, Co-Director of Community Engagement and Advocacy at the Cornell Center for Health Equity, has received a one-year, $100K Covid-19 research grant from Weill Cornell Medicine.
CCHEq members receive grant funding for community-engaged project
Two members of the Cornell Center for Health Equity have been awarded grant funding to address social determinants of health in Tompkins County.
Cornell Center for Health Equity receives $150K federal grant to improve telehealth
The Diversity Center of Excellence of the Cornell Center for Health Equity has received a $150K federal grant to support telehealth and distance learning capabilities in response to COVID-19.
Dr. Arnab Ghosh awarded Dean’s Diversity and Healthcare Disparity Research Award
Arnab Ghosh, MD , a member of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, was awarded a one-year, $50K research award to investigate the influence of value-based payment models on racial and socioeconomic disparities in hospitalized patients.
Dr. Susana Morales appointed Director of Diversity Center of Excellence
Dr. Susana Morales, who was appointed Director of the Diversity Center of Excellence in 2018, has long championed educational initiatives that have furthered the careers of underrepresented minorities in the field of medicine.
Grant to explore training and equity among home health aides caring for adults with heart failure
Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to explore the role of technology among home health aides and how it could help or hinder efforts to improve health equity in the U.S.
CCHEq Director: Cancer is leading cause of premature death in Brooklyn
Physicians at the Cornell Center for Health Equity and New York-Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital have issued a stark disclosure that cancer is now the leading cause of premature death before age 65 in Brooklyn.
Cornell Center for Health Equity symposium to bridge NYC and Ithaca research
The Cornell Center for Health Equity’s second annual symposium will bring together researchers from the university’s Weill Cornell Medicine and Ithaca campuses to develop collaborative teams that could apply for grants to support work in health equity.
CCHEq unveils new tool to overcome missing race data in electronic records
A new initiative from the Cornell Center for Health Equity has unveiled a new tool to correctly classify patients with missing race/ethnicity data in our electronic health record (EHR).
Health Equity Symposium attracts support from medical and tech communities
The 2018 Cornell Tri-Campus Health Equity Symposium, sponsored by the Cornell Center for Health Equity, attracted more than 100 guests from the medical and technological sectors.
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…
Weill Cornell Medicine receives $2.7M grant for Diversity Center for Excellence
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a four-year, $2.7 million grant to establish a Diversity Center of Excellence that will operate under the umbrella of the Cornell Center for Health Equity.
