Our Partners
Effective partnerships are vital to formulating community-based solutions for advancing health equity by making it a shared vision and value, increasing the community’s capacity to shape outcomes, and fostering multi-sector collaboration. Listed here are a few of the Center’s essential partners.
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.
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Diversity Center of Excellence
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Office of Diversity & Inclusion
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The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research
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Center for the Study of Inequality
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Engaged Cornell
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Center for Human Rights
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Weill Cornell Medicine Community Clinic
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Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
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PALS
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Yang-Tan Institute
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CCHEq Undergraduate Student Chapter
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Cornell Cooperative Extension
Ithaca, New york
Cornell Cooperative Extension educators and leadership from across New York State meet quarterly with the Cornell Center for Health Equity to build capacity at the county level to advance health equity by addressing the social determinants of health.
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City Harvest
Brooklyn, New York
City Harvest is New York City’s largest food rescue organization. It plans to rescue 75 million pounds of food a year and deliver it, free of charge, to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens and other community partners across the five boroughs. City Harvest works alongside community partners to boost community capacity, expand nutrition education, and strengthen local food systems.
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Cayuga Health
ithaca, New york
Cayuga Health is a regional health system that serves residents across the Finger Lakes and Central New York, works with the Cornell Center for Health Equity to identify opportunities to leverage faculty skills and expertise along with engaged trainees and students to facilitate organizational transformation activities to advance health equity in the communities it serves. These activities include community engagement and collaboration to increase cancer screening uptake, health and social care integration, policy changes with a DEI lens, health equity education, and robust collection of demographic and social determinants of health data to identify and eliminate health disparities.
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The Community Health Education and Research Program (CHERP)
New York, New York
CHERP, led by the Meyer Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement (OCOE), has partnered with social and faith-based organizations located in Brooklyn and Queens for the past 5 years. Volunteer members of the partnering organizations learn how to become expert educators on health promotion topics of greatest interest to their communities. This includes being trained on the BWELL4LIFE curriculum developed by OCOE that addresses shared behavioral risk factors for heart disease and cancer. Health educators also engage their communities through participation in health fairs and other health education events. Member organizations currently include: · Pleasant Grove Tabernacle · Friendship Baptist Church · St. Jerome’s Roman Catholic Church · Vanderveer Park United Methodist Church · Urban Neighborhood Services · Dominico-American Society of Queens · St. Vincent de Paul · St. George’s Episcopal Church
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Tompkins County Whole Health
ITHACA, NEW YORK
Formerly Tompkins County Health Department and Mental Health Department, Tompkins County Whole Health is partnering with the Cornell Center for Health Equity to develop and pilot public engagement methods to improve population wellbeing and health equity.
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GrowNYC
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
GrowNYC is the largest environmental organization in New York City and has played a pivotal role in policy and programs since its founding in 1970. The mission of GrowNYC is to improve the city’s quality of life through environmental programs that transform communities and empower New Yorkers to secure a clean and healthy environment for future generations. Today, the organization reports that 3 million New Yorkers participate in its programs.
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The REACH Project, Inc.
ITHACA, NEW YORK
The REACH Project Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the belief that all individuals deserve respectful, equitable, access to compassionate healthcare in a setting where they will not be stigmatized or judged based on drug use, homelessness, or any other issue that may cause less than adequate care in today’s healthcare environment. The REACH Project owns and operates the first low threshold, harm reduction medical practice in Ithaca, NY, called REACH Medical.
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Community Change
WASHINGTON, DC
Community Change is a national organization that builds power from the ground up, believing effective and enduring social movements must be led by those most impacted by injustice themselves. Community Change envisions a democracy and economy where everyone can thrive. CCHEq investigators are leading the design phase of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award to Community Change, “Building a Vision for Antiracist Health Policy.” Using a participatory, community-engaged approach, they will work with leaders to develop an anti-racist healthcare vision, values and policies, ideas for change, and narratives to develop a resonant vision and salient policy priorities all groups can support.
Interested in working with the Cornell Center for Health Equity as a community partner? Reach out to our team today.
