News & Events

December 3, 2024 - 10:49am
Repost from the Weill Cornell WCM NYC TRAC page, found here. On November 25, we successfully organized the 2nd annual NYC Tri-I TRAC symposium at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. This year’s event featured a diverse lineup of presentations, including proposals from current seed-grant recipients,... Read More
November 21, 2024 - 1:20pm
Dr Jean Pape, faculty member in the Weill Cornell Center for Global Health and Director of the GHESKIO Clinic in Port au Prince Haiti, spoke at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday November 20th about the insecurity in Haiti and the need for international support. The transcript of his talk... Read More
November 11, 2024 - 11:41am
On Friday, November 1st, several Center research assistants (RAs) presented abstracts at the Department of Medicine (DOM) Research Retreat. Read about two of our RAs, Megan Willkens and Anju Ogyu and their studies below! Megan Willkens: Megan presented a poster titled “Incidence and progression of... Read More
October 8, 2024 - 8:46am
Today, the Center for Global Health said goodbye to Dr. Barbara Spencer of Weill Bugando Medical Center and  Dr. Bahati Faustine of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center as they ended their month-long stay in New York City. The two physicians teach anatomy at their respective institutions, and came... Read More
September 18, 2024 - 12:15pm
Drs. Jennifer Downs, Jyoti Mathad, and Margaret McNairy, Center for Global Health faculty, were recently awarded NIH funding to pursue a multi-faceted education program addressing knowledge gaps in global infectious diseases in women. They are joined by Drs. Sasha Fahme, Lindsey Reif, Vanessa Rouzier,... Read More
August 14, 2024 - 2:47pm
Dr. Molly McNairy, associate professor of medicine and Center for Global Health faculty, was selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine (ELHM) by the National Academy of Medicine in July 2024.Each year, the National Academy of Medicine selects up to ten early- to mid-career professionals... Read More
July 1, 2024 - 11:41am
Dr. Sasha A. Fahme, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Co-Director of the Women in Global Health Research Initiative Female Global Scholars Program was recently awarded the 2024 Lila A. and Benedict Wallis Prize for Women's Health Research.The award, established in 2000,... Read More
May 31, 2024 - 3:30pm
Dr. Oscar Ottoman presented about his work on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) genotype distribution and oncogene expression in HIV-positive adults and the underlying risk factors for anal, oral and genital malignancy at Weill Bugando School of Medicine on May 15, 2024, at Tanzania’s National Institute of... Read More
May 3, 2024 - 7:05am
On April 30, The NYC-TRAC hosted Dr. Susan Dorman, Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, who has co-authored national guidelines for management of TB and leads a research team that focuses on development of new TB diagnostics and treatments. Dr. Dorman gave a... Read More
April 1, 2024 - 4:45pm
On April 1, we had the pleasure of hosting Maria Smilios, author of the book titled "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of The Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis." This book sheds light on the contributions of Black nurses at Sea View Hospital in Staten Island, New York, from the early 1900s through... Read More

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