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Welcome
We are pleased to announce that William L. Schpero, Ph.D., and Rana S. Zadeh, MArch, Ph.D., have joined CCHEq as Co-Associate Directors of the Research, Training, and Mentoring Core. The core is aimed at advancing a robust research and outreach agenda informed by current gaps in health disparity assessments.
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Dr. William L. Schpero is a health economist and an assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Economics of the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
He studies Medicaid and the health care safety net in the United States. Through his research, he aims to identify policy levers to address racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care. In past work, he has studied the drivers of waste in the U.S. healthcare system and analyzed the effect of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
His research has appeared in a number of academic journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. It has been featured by Bloomberg, CNBC, Politico, The Washington Post, and other news outlets.
He primarily teaches in the executive M.B.A./M.S. in Healthcare Leadership program offered jointly by Cornell's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He also actively teaches and advises students in the health policy and economics track of Weill Cornell's M.S. in Healthcare Policy and Research program, as well as students in the M.D. program.
He received his Ph.D. in health policy and economics from Yale University, during which he was also a pre-doctoral fellow in aging and health economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. For work stemming from his dissertation, he received the Annual Student Prize from the International Health Economics Association. Before attending Yale, he completed a master's degree and a research fellowship at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.
For more information about Dr. Schpero’s experience and interests, please visit his Weill Cornell or CCHEq profiles.
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Dr. Rana S. Zadeh is an associate professor and the co-director and co-founder of the Health Design Innovations Lab in the Department of Design & Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.
Dr. Zadeh specializes in evidence-based and human-centered healthcare design. Her work focuses on improving quality-of-life and symptom management for vulnerable populations, especially individuals who experience chronic, advanced, or life-limiting illness, and optimizing the working environments and caring experiences for their formal and informal caregivers.
Zadeh’s lab develops translational solutions to bring the best evidence with a lens of equity to practice using a systems approach combining available capacities in design, policy, engineering, business, and medicine in partnership with communities. Some examples of the work include:
- Medication safety for community-dwelling older adults with polypharmacy, and their caregivers, through policy-related, educational, and technological solutions.
- Systems approach to palliative and supportive care.
- Sleep and circadian rhythm optimization, especially for those with chronic or advanced illness, through educational, technological, and environmental solutions.
- Tech-to-market advancement for occupant sensing and health monitoring technologies.
- Healthy aging.
- Workplace design and management with a focus on equity.
Dr. Zadeh has worked with international and national organizations, community representatives, advocacy groups, and stakeholders on system transformation, implementation, documentation, and communication of practices and policies to improve health, as well as related economic and societal outcomes.
For more information about Dr. Zadeh’s experience and interests, please visit her Cornell or CCHEq profiles.
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Education Scholars in Health Equity Program
Launched in the Fall of 2019, the Education Scholars in Health Equity Program, which includes an Education and Research track for faculty, builds on Weill Cornell’s long-standing commitment to diversity by working with campus and community partners to increase the number of minority physicians in the workforce and academic medicine and aims to increase the number of underrepresented minority physicians trained by Weill Cornell Medicine is through the expansion of faculty development programs to support underrepresented minority faculty.
Dr. Gwendolyn Jack is a graduate of our Education Scholars in Health Equity program and will assume leadership of the Education Scholars in Health Equity from Dr. Erica Phillips, who has led it for the past four years. Dr. Jack has formed the IHEAL group, mainly composed of alumni of the SHE program, who participated in Implicit Bias training for our medical students in October 2022.
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COVID-19 Community Education and Empowerment Internship
The Diversity Center of Excellence and its collaborators will hold the 5th Cohort of the COVID-19 Community Education and Empowerment Internship for diverse STEM high school juniors and seniors, and college students, starting in January 2023—please share with your networks.
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New Publication
- Figueroa, R., Baker, K., Capellan, J., Pinheiro, L., Burd, L., Lim, J., . . . Phillips, E. (2022). Residential urban food environment profiles and diet outcomes among adults in Brooklyn, New York: A cross-sectional study. Public Health Nutrition, 1-25. doi:10.1017/S1368980022002476
- The FIG lab led by Dr. Roger Figueroa used initial data collected from a study Dr. Erica Phillips led for the Meyer Cancer Center evaluating the cardiovascular and cancer shared risk factors among residents in one key part of the cancer center's catchment area. This study is a sub-group analysis of the larger study in which they published two other papers earlier this year below.
- Pinheiro LC, Soroka O, Razon DT, Antoine F, Rothman J, Kanis MJ, Khan U, Tamimi RM, Nanus D, Phillips E. Fatalistic cancer beliefs and self-reported cancer screening behaviors among diverse urban residents. J Behav Med. 2022 Sep 9. doi: 10.1007/s10865-022-00358-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36083412.
- Pinheiro LC, Soroka O, Razon D, Ramos R, Antoine F, Dannenberg AJ, Safford M, Peterson SJ, Tamimi RM, Nanus DM, Phillips E. Cancer and cardiovascular-related perceived risk in a diverse cancer center catchment area. Cancer Causes Control. 2022 May;33(5):759-768. doi: 10.1007/s10552-022-01560-3. Epub 2022 Mar 11. PMID: 35274199; PMCID: PMC8913330.
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Structural Racism and Rigorous Models of Social Inequity: Proceedings of a Workshop
Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations. Developing a research agenda on structural racism includes consideration of the historical and contemporary policies and other structural factors that explicitly or implicitly affect the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities, as well as strategies to measure those factors.
The Committee on Population of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop on May 16-17, 2022, to identify and discuss the mechanisms through which structural racism operates, with a particular emphasis on health and well-being; to develop an agenda for future research and data collection on structural racism; and to strengthen the evidence base for policy making. Speaker presentations and workshop discussions provided insights into known sources of structural racism and rigorous models of health inequity, revealed novel sources and approaches informed by other disciplines and related fields, and highlighted key research and data priorities for future work on structural racism and health inequity.
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Congratulations to the newest additions! | |
Warmest wishes to Dr. Christopher Gonzalez and his growing family! (left)
Best wishes to Daisy Torres Baez and her husband, who announced the birth of their new baby!
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