Global Health
Our Public Health research team was a founding member of the Clinton Foundation's Consortium for Strategic HIV/AIDS Operations Research (CSHOR), for which we completed a number of on-line and stand-alone simulation models for scale up of HIV prevention (male circumcision primarily) and antiretroviral treatment.
In addition, as Director of the newly created Preparedness Modeling Unit of the US Centers for Disease Control and Preparedness, I have a mandate to increase the application of quantitative research techniques to a variety of conditions that impact global health, such as climate change, disease emergence and migration, and sociodemographic factors that influence population-level susceptibility to both natural and intentional catastrophic events.
Currently we do not have overseas-based projects, but public health preparedness models that we have developed at Weill Cornell are actively used in Europe and other regions of the world.
Opportunities exist for interested students to work with our Weill Cornell research group on a number of ongoing projects focusing on the health sector response to disasters, with an emphasis on practical logistical complications in public health and medical response operations.
