This job expired on February 11, 2019
Cornell MPH- Food Systems and Health Cornell University
- Date Posted December 13, 2018
- Location Ithaca, NY
- Category Agriculture / Education
- Job type Educational program
Company description
Application instructions
One University. One Public Health.
The nature of our ever-changing global community — including both people and animals within the environment — requires a comprehensive systems approach to public health to prevent disease, promote health, and improve the quality of life of the planet’s population as a whole. Cornell University is the country’s largest private Ivy League and federal land grant university and is comprised of 14 colleges and schools, in six locations throughout the world, with 1,648 faculty, 8,109 staff, 14,315 undergraduate, 5,265 graduate, and 2,324 professional students. A huge part of the research, work, and education that takes place across the university’s diverse body is in the realm of public health – including the health of humans, animals, the environment, and our planet as a whole.
Job description
Students in the Food Systems and Health Concentration are preparing to address the health needs and inequities of our rapidly changing world and build sustainable food system solutions. They:
- Engage in systems thinking to address issues in complex food systems.
- Learn topics in nutritional security, food justice, food safety, and epidemiology.
- Use interdisciplinary methods from ecology, plant science, economics, sociology and more.
- Participate in hands-on opportunities for community-based and engaged public health in local and international contexts.
- Apply One Health, and Planetary Health perspectives to public health.In our professional degree program, founded on the One Health and Planetary Health paradigms, you will:
- Cornell University faculty and students pursue innovative and exciting public health research and practice.
- Learn the links between the health of humans and the ecosystem.
- Use multidisciplinary, systems approaches to consider and address the social, economic, and behavioral drivers that shape health.
- Become well-prepared for the public health workforce by planning and doing real public health work with communities.
This job expired on February 11, 2019
DeadlineApril 01, 2019