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New minor track focuses on inequities in health
WEBA new minor track in the Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) allows students to explore the social causes and consequences of inequalities in life expectancy, health outcomes, health-promoting behaviors and access to health care. Students in any major are now able to declare a Health Equity Track within the Minor in Inequality Studies.
Actived: 9 days ago
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Research Portal Presents Link between Discrimination and Health …
WEBAnti-LGBT discrimination increases the risks of poor mental and physical health for LGBT people, including depression, anxiety, suicidality, PTSD, substance use, and cardiovascular disease. Discrimination is linked to health harms even for those who are not directly exposed to it, because the presence of discrimination, stigma, and prejudice
Planetary Health
WEBRobust transdisciplinary research is needed to unravel these complex relationships and support really moving science into policy and action. But if we succeed in this new field we now call planetary health, humanity can make more holistic, better-informed decisions, in terms of land- and ocean-use planning, public health policy, and
Health inequities the focus of ‘Racism in America’ webinar on …
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the dire consequences of inequities in America’s health care. According to the COVID Tracking Project, African Americans die from COVID-19 at rates more than 1.5 times their share of the population, while Hispanics, Latinos, Native American and Alaskan Natives share of death and sickness is disproportionate to …
Water crisis took toll on Flint adults’ physical, mental health
WEBThe data nonetheless suggests, Ezell said, that Flint’s adult residents experienced significantly more adverse health symptoms during and in the years after the water crisis’ initiation than would be expected from the city’s population. “Flint adults, particularly Blacks,” Ezell and Chase concluded, “experienced deleterious physical
COVID-19 healthcare issues reflect pre-existing inequalities
WEBAs COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, federal data shows more than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short on intensive care beds. The data has caused some panic about the possibility of health care rationing over the coming months.
Researchers describe gut health’s influence on brain health
WEB10/24/2019. New cellular and molecular processes underlying communication between gut microbes and brain cells have been described for the first time by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus. Over the last two decades, scientists have observed a clear link between autoimmune disorders and a variety of psychiatric
Chemist offers new insights into how serotonin regulates behavior
WEBNew research led by chemist Frank Schroeder could ultimately lead to new therapeutics to help relieve this global mental health burden. First discovered in the 1930s, serotonin is a neurotransmitter produced in many animals that mediates myriad behaviors, such as feeding, sleep, mood and cognition. Drugs that alter serotonin levels are the main
Inequality Studies
WEBThrough its core requirements, the Minor in Inequality Studies exposes students to the breadth of the social scientific literature on inequalities in many different social and economic goods (e.g., income, wealth, education, health, political power, social status, job security) and across many sources of difference (e.g., class, race and ethnicity, …
New insights into metabolites that control aging and disease
WEB1/23/2024. In a significant advancement in the field of biochemistry, scientists at BTI and Cornell University have uncovered new insights into a family of metabolites, acylspermidines, that could change how we understand aging and fight diseases. The study, recently published in Nature Chemical Biology, presents an unexpected …
‘No one wins when immigrants cannot readily access healthcare’
WEBPresident Biden announced that his administration is expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, allowing participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) to access government-funded health insurance programs.
Health, economy in pandemic topic of debate series debut
WEBThe series kicks off Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. with “ Health vs. Economy in the Pandemic Control: What is the Right Balance? ” The webinar will feature Matthew Adler, professor of law and economics at Duke University, and Peter Vallentyne, the Florence G. Kline Chair in Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Study reframes the history of LGBT mental health care
WEBTheir paper uncovers the story of the Eromin Center, one of the first LGBT counseling centers in the United States, which was open in Philadelphia from 1973 to 1984. Eromin was a portmanteau for “erotic minorities.”. Historically, LGBT people struggled to find mental health care that didn’t treat divergence from sexual and gender norms as
Biological Sciences
WEBBiological Sciences. As a biological sciences major, you’ll have novel opportunities to jump into engaging research projects. With more than 300 faculty, our undergraduate program, jointly run by the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is one of the most highly regarded in the country.
Biology & Society
WEBThe Biology & Society major is an interdisciplinary major that allows students to combine the study of the biological sciences with courses that explore the social and ethical aspects of modern biology. In addition to gaining a foundation in biology, students in the major acquire background in the social dimensions of modern biology and in the biological …
Center for the Study of Inequality
WEBCornell University's Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) is devoted to understanding patterns, causes, and consequences of social and economic inequalities of many different forms. It supports cutting-edge research on inequality, trains undergraduate and graduate students, encourages the exchange of ideas among researchers, and disseminates …
Panel: Pandemic has exposed long-standing health inequities
WEBPatrick Shanahan for Cornell University Student dancers rehearse an ensemble piece that will be part of the "This table has been a house in the rain" performance April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: (from left) Isabel Padilla, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts; Irene Kim ’24; Taylor Pryor, doctoral candidate in literatures …
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