News & Updates

  • 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

    Read More

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.

  • December 11, 2023

    Call for Abstracts: 4th Annual Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium 2024

    Join us at the 2024 Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium, themed “Advancing Health Justice: Policy, Practice and Engagement” to showcase your scholarly work in health equity. The abstract deadline is Jan. 31, 2024.

  • September 1, 2022

    Call for Abstracts: 3rd Annual Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium

    Join us at the 3rd Annual Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium to showcase your scholarly workin health equity. The deadline for abstracts is Sept. 16, 2022.

  • April 6, 2022

    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…

  • April 4, 2022

    Health Equity Work on Black Experiences of Gynecologic Cancer

    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…

  • April 4, 2022

    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.

  • March 7, 2022

    RSVP TODAY: 3rd Annual Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium | October 20-21, 2022

    The 3rd Annual Cornell Center for Health Equity Symposium will be held October 20-21 and focus on “Healthy People 2030: Shifting Power to Communities.” 

  • October 13, 2021

    Request for Community Partnership Building Proposals

    The Cornell Center for Health Equity is pleased to request applications for 6-12 month community partnership building grants. We are able to support up to four project teams that aim to establish or strengthen collaborative partnerships that will enable meaningful involvement of community stakeholders in health equity research. Meaningful involvement may include activities such as…

  • April 9, 2021

    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.

  • October 7, 2020

    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.

  • June 15, 2020

    8 Tips for protesting safely in the Covid era

    To make demonstrations to eradicate racism as safe as possible, we offer you the following advice to minimize the risk for spreading the coronavirus while you exert your right to free speech.

  • June 2, 2020

    Cornell Center for Health Equity releases statement on institutional racism and the killing of George Floyd

    We at the Cornell Center for Health Equity condemn the horrific and grievous killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police.

  • May 28, 2020

    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. 

  • May 15, 2020

    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.

  • May 13, 2020

    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.

  • September 20, 2019

    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.

  • September 12, 2019

    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.

  • August 9, 2019

    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.

  • April 16, 2019

    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. 

  • March 25, 2019

    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).

  • March 14, 2019

    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.

  • March 14, 2019

    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…

  • February 20, 2019

    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.