General

The primary mission of the Department of Population Health Sciences is to conduct research and evaluations related to key healthcare policy and delivery topics, developing and spreading critical evidence to improve the health of populations. Our faculty members have substantial research strengths across various areas, including healthcare policy and economics, data analytics and informatics, epidemiology, and health outcomes. Their innovative, quantitative, and qualitative research addresses the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and comparative effectiveness of various healthcare interventions and delivery models.

Current Research Highlights

AI Tool Accurately Sorts Cancer Patients by Their Likely Outcomes

May 14, 2025

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A new artificial intelligence-based method accurately sorts cancer patients into groups that have similar characteristics before treatment and similar outcomes after treatment, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The new approach has the potential to enable better patient selection in clinical trials and better treatment selection for individual patients.

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AIDH Seminar: Towards Precision Oncology: A Predictive, Causal, and LLM Lens

May 13, 2025

The Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Digital Health is excited to host Dr. David Sontag, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Co-Founder and CEO at Layer Health. The seminar will take place on May 30 at noon via Zoom. 
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Pregnancy May Reduce Long COVID Risk

April 1, 2025

Pregnancy may offer some protection from developing Long COVID, found a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, University of Utah Health and Louisiana Public Health Institute. Previous research has mostly focused on non-pregnant adults affected by Long COVID—a condition lasting for months after a person recovers from a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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