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Population Health Sciences at @WeillCornell: Advancing knowledge, practice, and policy approaches to improve the health of populations.
New York
Joined January 2014
An article from @Politico covers the $5.1 million @NIH grant awarded to researchers at @WeillCornell and @Cornell to launch the Autism Replication, Validation and Reproducibility Center. Dr. Judy Zhong is a principal investigator of the project:
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We look forward to learning from Dr. Jonathan N. Tobin at today’s Grand Rounds. Dr. Tobin joins us from the Clinical Directors Network, Inc., and @RockefellerUniv. https://t.co/fPaYvOTYNm
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Joanna Quintero graduated from the @WeillCornell MS in Health Policy & Economics program while working full-time and supporting her community. Being a caregiver for her parents inspired her journey. Learn more:
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We’re thrilled to have Dr. Jonathan N. Tobin (@RockefellerUniv) present at our Grand Rounds this Thursday: https://t.co/fPaYvOTYNm
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An article from @NPR covers Dr. Judy Zhong's $5.1 million grant from the Autism Data Science Initiative. She will lead the Autism Replication, Validation, and Reproducibility Center at @WeillCornell. Learn more:
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Cornell University will receive $5.1 million as the Trump administration seeks to find a source and cure for autism.
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A recent study in @JournalCancer from @YuhuaBaoPhD and colleagues evaluates the impacts of medical marijuana legalization policies since 2016 on opioid prescriptions and adverse events among patients with cancer:
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Many states have implemented medical marijuana legalization (MML) but the impacts of MML policies among patients undergoing cancer resection surgery remain underexplored. This study found that while...
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The Emergency Medicaid (EM) program has historically reimbursed hospitals for emergency care to uninsured, low-income immigrants. In @NEJM, @wschpero, Dr. Yasin Civelek, and colleagues at @MSKCancerCenter address potential changes to the scope of EM:
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States that use federal dollars to provide health care to unauthorized immigrants, beyond narrowly defined emergency services, will now face enforcement actions and potential recoupment of funds.
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The @WeillCornell Biostatistics Summer Internship, offered through our Division of Biostatistics, provides students with comprehensive training in and exposure to biostatistics and public health research. Learn about our 2025 cohort:
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The Weill Cornell Medicine Biostatistics Summer Internship, offered through the
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Dr. Judy Zhong, Dr. Rainu Kaushal (@RainuKaushal), and Dr. Conor Liston have received a $5.1 million grant from the @NIH Autism Data Science Initiative to launch the Autism Replication, Validation, and Reproducibility Center. Learn more:
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Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus have received a $5.1 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) to...
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A study in @Health_Affairs Scholar from @wschpero and colleagues assesses how recent legislative changes to Medicaid expansion may impact adults enrolled in Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act expansion:
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As of 2025, 40 states and the District of Columbia have implemented expansions of Medicaid eligibility under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). A large body of research has found
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The Cornell Health Policy Center recently launched an Insight Panel, which surveys national experts on urgent issues facing the US health care system. Their first survey evaluates the Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act:
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Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults,...
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In their new Forefront article, @DhruvKhullar, @wschpero, @EmmaBethMcGinty, @colleenlbarry, and Amelia M. Bond of @WeillCornell and @CornellBPP discuss a survey which suggests that many of the country’s leading health care policy experts believe that work requirements are likely
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For many years, the Clark Center at Chicago Booth has regularly surveyed leading economists to assess consensus on timely economic policy issues. We are excited today to launch the Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel, where we extend that model to health policy. 1/N ⬇️
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Findings from Dr. Yiweh Shieh and colleagues in @GenomeMedicine could inform the delivery of breast cancer screening and prevention based on individual risk rather than age alone. Learn more:
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Since the advent of screening mammograms in the late 20th century, breast cancer screening recommendations have remained largely unchanged and rely on age as the main criterion to guide screening.
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At this meeting, @YunyuXiaoPhD presented her recent research published in @JAMA_current, which finds that youth who become increasingly addicted to social media are at greater risk of worse suicide-related and mental health outcomes.
Last week, we hosted Sweden’s Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health @jakobforssmed, @aviciicharity, @WCMPopHealthSci, and @TheNewSchool for a lunch discussing young people’s relationship to screen time and how to mitigate the addictiveness of this technology.
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We’re excited to welcome Dr. Mila Sun to our Division of Biostatistics as an assistant professor. Learn about Dr. Sun’s expertise and research:
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Dr. Mila Sun is an assistant professor of population health sciences in the Division of Biostatistics. She joins Weill Cornell Medicine from the Harvard T.H.
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Sanhita Chundury is among the first graduates of the AI pathway of our MS in Health Informatics program. Learn how this degree equipped her with the skills to become an AI research analyst:
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Patients may perceive documentation practices for clinical notes as stigmatizing. A study in @JournalGIM from Dr. Marianne Sharko and colleagues evaluated how this perceived stigma affects care for pregnant patients with substance use disorders:
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During debate on the OBBBA, I realized we know very little about health care needs and use in the adult Medicaid expansion population. We have a short paper out in @Health_Affairs Scholar this week that uses national Medicaid claims data in an attempt to fill that gap: ⬇️ 1/N
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Research in @JSATJournal from @Veer_Vekaria, members of our department, and colleagues from @WCMPsychiatry shows that intentional and unintentional overdoses involve two different patient groups with distinct risks and needs:
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In 2023, the US reported approximately 108,000 deaths from overdose. Intentional overdoses, sometimes referred to as self-inflicted or suicide-related overdoses, occur when an individual deliberately
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