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.
The symposium, open to the public, will be held April 11-12 at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine on the Ithaca campus.
“This second symposium is designed to pull together the campus communities around shared research interests,” said Avery August, co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity. Dr. Monika Safford, chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and the John J. Kuiper Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, co-directs the center with August.
The center, which launched in 2018, aims to address health inequities and disparities in underrepresented and underserved communities, including those in urban areas such as New York City and in rural areas in upstate New York. The center partners with communities in New York City and central New York to study ways to alleviate differences in health outcomes, with the goal of creating more equitable communities locally, regionally and nationally.
