Engaged Curriculum Grants
Global and Public Health Sciences Major
Reaching underserved communities with health prevention and treatment information through a major that promotes cultural sensitivity and community engagement.
Addressing public health problems requires a multidisciplinary and pragmatic approach with cultural and ethical sensitivity. This is why Cornell’s expanding major in global and public health sciences requires students to connect theory and practice through community-engaged learning experiences. In the major, three to six credit hours of supervised fieldwork is complemented by a preparatory seminar and a capstone course that challenges students to draw on both their classroom and experiential learning. Faculty in the program have developed a diverse portfolio of sustainable, mutually beneficial community partnerships that are accessible to all students in the major.
Grant type: Development (2018-19), Development (2015-16)
Topics: Health, Nutrition and Medicine
The Team
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Tashara Marie Leak, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
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Julia Finkelstein, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
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Jeanne Moseley, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
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David Pelletier, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
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Rebecca Seguin, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
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Kate Dickin, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
- Cornell partner: Practicing Medicine: Health Care Culture and Careers
- Cornell partner: Cornell in Washington
- Community partner: Cornell Cooperation Extension of Tompkins County
- Community partner: Cornell Cooperative Extension of New York City
- Cornell partner: Skorton Center for Health Initiatives
- Cornell partner: Weill Cornell Medical Clinical and Translational Science Center
- Community partner: Pre-existing partners in Dominican Republic, India, Tanzania and Zambia
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.