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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.

In partnership with Dr. Onyinye Balogun in Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Amelia Greiner Safi (Public and Ecosystem Health), MPH students Jennifer Gil and Nyaradzo Sirewu, and Global Health student Hannah Lee have launched their nation-wide study to understand experiences of Black patients with gynecologic cancers, funded by a partnership building grant from…

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, 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.

Two members of the Cornell Center for Health Equity have been awarded grant funding to address social determinants of health in Tompkins County. 

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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).

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.

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 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.