Population Health Sciences

Epidemiology

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The mission of the Division is to improve the public’s health by advancing knowledge as it relates to the causes and prevention of disease through innovative and multidisciplinary research. Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health conditions in human populations. Our faculty have a diverse range of expertise including genetics, cancer, infectious disease, mental health, sports injury, and nutrition. Our Division embraces collaboration and has partners from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, WCM-Qatar, Cornell University in Ithaca, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Current Research Highlights

Dr. Jay Varma Receives Grant to Study COVID-19 Disease Surveillance

November 4, 2022

Dr. Jay Varma, a professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received a six-month, $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to assess how countries around the world have been monitoring and reporting COVID-19 infections and outcomes during the pandemic.

“The...

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What Do Global Health Practitioners Think about Decolonizing Global Health?

July 29, 2022

Researchers have acknowledged the global health inequities between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which can be attributed to colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism. In a viewpoint published in Annals of Global Health, Dr. Madelon Finkel, professor of clinical population health sciences at Weill...

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Faculty in the News: When Do Masks Come Off? The Hard Truth About Lifting Covid Restrictions

February 9, 2022

Dr. Jay K. Varma, director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response and professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, is an expert on the prevention and control of diseases. In a guest essay in The New York Times, “When Do Masks Come Off? The Hard Truth About...

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Population Health Sciences 402 E. 67th St. New York, NY 10065 Phone: (646) 962-8078

Faculty & Staff

Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad , PhD, MSc

Professor of population health sciences

lja2002@med.cornell.edu

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Susanne Awad

Research Associate in Population Health Sciences

sua2006@med.cornell.edu

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Shadi Azam , PhD, MsC

Postdoctoral Associate in Population Health Sciences

sha4015@med.cornell.edu

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Medha Goyal Barbhaiya

Assistant professor of population health sciences

Victoria Blinder

Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

Vida Caraballo

Administrator, Grants and Finance

vic4009@med.cornell.edu

Patricia Cassano

Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences

Sunday Clark , ScD, MPH

Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology Research in Emergency Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences

suc2010@med.cornell.edu

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Lewis Drusin , MD, MPH

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
Attending Physician
Director, Student Faculty Mentor Program

ldrusin@med.cornell.edu

(212) 746-1757

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Madelon Finkel , PhD

Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences

maf2011@med.cornell.edu

(646) 962-8038

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Edward Gemson

Project Coordinator

edg4001@med.cornell.edu

(646) 962-7643

Kevin Kensler , MHS, ScD

Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

kek4007@med.cornell.edu

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Monia Tannous Makhoul , PhD, MSc

Postdoctoral Associate in Population Health Sciences

mom2039@med.cornell.edu

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Stavros Memtsoudis , MD, PhD

Clinical Professor of Population Health Sciences

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Faith Morley

Research Assistant

fam4014@med.cornell.edu

Lauren Mount , MD

Senior Research Program Manager

lem9092@med.cornell.edu

Kenneth Offit , MD, MPH

Professor of Population Health Sciences

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Laura Pinheiro , PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

lcp2003@med.cornell.edu

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Barbara Reissman , DPH

Senior Lecturer in Population Health Sciences

blr2002@med.cornell.edu

(646) 962-8054

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Shoshana Rosenberg , ScD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

shr4009@med.cornell.edu

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Ravi Sharaf , MD, MS

Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences

ras9030@med.cornell.edu

(212) 746-4014

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Yiwey Shieh , MD, MAS

Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

yis4001@med.cornell.edu

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Taylor Stein

Research Assistant

tas4017@med.cornell.edu

Rulla Tamimi , ScD

Chief of the Division of Epidemiology
Associate Director of Population Science, Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Professor of Population Health Sciences

rmt4001@med.cornell.edu

646-962-3492

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Jay K. Varma , MD

Director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Professor of Population Health Sciences

jav4003@med.cornell.edu

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Aleina Zehra

Administrative Assistant

alz2004@med.cornell.edu

Recent Faculty Publications

Interactions Between Mammographic Density Phenotypes and Established Risk Factors on Breast Cancer Risk, by Tumor Subtype and Menopausal Status.

H. Chen; L. Yaghjyan; C. Li; U. Peters; B. Rosner; S. Lindström; R.M. Tamimi

2020

Public health insurance and cancer-specific mortality risk among patients with breast cancer: A prospective cohort study in China.

Y. Xie; U.A. Valdimarsdóttir; C. Wang; X.R. Zhong; Q. Gou; H. Zheng; L. Deng; P. He; K. Hu; K. Fall; F. Fang; R.M. Tamimi; T. Luo; D. Lu

2020

Germline HOXB13 mutations p.G84E and p.R217C do not confer an increased breast cancer risk.

J. Liu; W.J.C.Prager van der Smissen; M. Collée; M.K. Bolla; Q. Wang; K. Michailidou; J. Dennis; T.U. Ahearn; K. Aittomäki; C.B. Ambrosone; I.L. Andrulis; H. Anton-Culver; N.N. Antonenkova; V. Arndt; N. Arnold; K.J. Aronson; A. Augustinsson; P. Auvinen; H. Becher; M.W. Beckmann; S. Behrens; M. Bermisheva; L. Bernstein; N.V. Bogdanova; N. Bogdanova-Markov; S.E. Bojesen; H. Brauch; H. Brenner; I. Briceno; S.Y. Brucker; T. Brüning; B. Burwinkel; Q. Cai; H. Cai; D. Campa; F. Canzian; J.E. Castelao; J. Chang-Claude; S.J. Chanock; J.Y. Choi; M. Christiaens; C.L. Clarke; F.J. Couch; K. Czene; M.B. Daly; P. Devilee; I. Dos-Santos-Silva; M. Dwek; D.M. Eccles; H. Eliassen; P.A. Fasching; J. Figueroa; H. Flyger; L. Fritschi; M. Gago-Dominguez; S.M. Gapstur; M. García-Closas; J.A. García-Sáenz; M.M. Gaudet; G.G. Giles; M.S. Goldberg; D.E. Goldgar; P. Guénel; C.A. Haiman; N. Håkansson; P. Hall; P.A. Harrington; S.N. Hart; M. Hartman; P. Hillemanns; J.L. Hopper; M.F. Hou; D.J. Hunter; D. Huo; H. Ito; M. Iwasaki; M. Jakimovska; A. Jakubowska; E.M. John; R. Kaaks; D. Kang; R. Keeman; E. Khusnutdinova; S.W. Kim; P. Kraft; V.N. Kristensen; A.W. Kurian; L. Le Marchand; J. Li; A. Lindblom; A. Lophatananon; R.N. Luben; J. Lubiński; A. Mannermaa; M. Manoochehri; S. Manoukian; S. Margolin; S. Mariapun; K. Matsuo; T. Maurer; D. Mavroudis; A. Meindl; U. Menon; R.L. Milne; K. Muir; A.Marie Mulligan; S.L. Neuhausen; H. Nevanlinna; K. Offit; O.I. Olopade; J.E. Olson; H. Olsson; N. Orr; S.K. Park; P. Peterlongo; J. Peto; D. Plaseska-Karanfilska; N. Presneau; B. Rack; R. Rau-Murthy; G. Rennert; H.S. Rennert; V. Rhenius; A. Romero; M. Ruebner; E. Saloustros; R.K. Schmutzler; A. Schneeweiss; C. Scott; M. Shah; C.Y. Shen; X.O. Shu; J. Simard; C. Sohn; M.C. Southey; J.J. Spinelli; R.M. Tamimi; W.J. Tapper; S.H. Teo; M.Beth Terry; D. Torres; T. Truong; M. Untch; C.M. Vachon; C.J. van Asperen; A. Wolk; T. Yamaji; W. Zheng; A. Ziogas; E. Ziv; G. Torres-Mejía; T. Dörk; A.J. Swerdlow; U. Hamann; M.K. Schmidt; A.M. Dunning; P.D.P. Pharoah; D.F. Easton; M.J. Hooning; J.W.M. Martens; A. Hollestelle

2020

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