The Cornell Health Policy Center is a partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine and the Brooks School of Public Policy, which serves as the locus of health policy impact, research, and training at Cornell.
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📌 A new paper by Dr. Yuhua Bao and colleagues published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine sheds light on an often-overlooked dimension of cancer care equity for Asian American patients: the association between pain management and mental health symptoms.
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Charley Willison on receiving a Cornell Center for Social Sciences seed grant!
Dr. Willison will serve as the principal investigator for her project: “Using Public Safety to Solve Social Problems: Local Politics, Devolution & the Case of Homelessness.”
📌 Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. adults view opioid overdose deaths as a very serious problem, with striking agreement across political lines, according to a new national survey by CHPC faculty researchers.
📰 A recent U.S. News & World Report article synthesizes the study’s key findings: buff.ly/V4ICKlM
📣 CHPC is pleased to welcome Lindsey Vuolo, JD, MPH, as policy director!
Lindsey will lead CHPC’s policy dissemination and engagement work and execute the Center’s health policy and engagement projects. Prior to CHPC, Lindsey led the policy work at Partnership to End Addiction.
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🚨 REMINDER: Cornell Health Policy Center summer internship applications are due Sunday, February 1st!
Brooks School undergraduates and Weill Cornell Medicine graduate students with an interest in health policy research and translation are encouraged to apply.
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📍Dr. Mark Unruh and colleagues have a new article out in Palliative Support Care: “Behavioral health as a palliative care priority in long-term services and supports: A cross-sectional study of staff.”
Read the full publication here:
📌 The Cornell Health Policy Center is seeking students from the Cornell Brooks School and Weill Cornell Medicine for a 10-week (400-hour requirement) health policy internship for summer 2026. Applications are due February 1, 2026.
🔗 Please refer to our website for details!
⭐️ We are honored that CHPC center director Dr. Dhruv Khullar was selected to deliver the keynote address at the Medicare Rights Center 2025 annual benefit.
🎤 To hear Dr. Khullar discuss the future of Medicare and American health care, click here:
⭐️ CHPC faculty member and Chair of Ob-Gyn at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Laura Riley was featured on Good Morning America to discuss a new study that finds acetaminophen safe during pregnancy. We are proud to see our faculty contributing to evidence-based public health guidance.
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📍 A new study by Dr. Yuhua Bao finds that drug use-associated infective endocarditis patients who left via patient-directed discharge (PDD) had lower post-discharge antibiotic fill rates and higher 30-day readmission rates compared to non-PDD patients.
👉 Read the full paper here:
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Purpose: Although racial and ethnic cancer pain disparities are well-documented, there is insufficient Asian American representation in extant literature, leadi...
A major new study finds acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, is safe during pregnancy. Last fall, President Trump and HHS Secretary RFK Jr. urged limits many experts called misguided.
The Cornell Health Policy Center (CHPC) summer internship program facilitates mentorship with CHPC faculty and helps students improve their policy analysis, writing, and professional skills through…
Dr. Dhruv Khullar—physician, researcher, and nationally recognized voice on health care policy—delivers the keynote address at the Medicare Rights Center’s 2025 Annual Benefit.
In this timely and…
