The mission of the Global Health Program is to engage new researchers in the field of global health and to establish new and unique research collaborations that will foster a multidisciplinary approach to solving global health problems. We define global health as research, service, and training that address health problems that transcend national boundaries, that disproportionately affect the resource-poor, and that are best addressed through multidisciplinary solutions. An important mechanism for achieving our goal is to develop a curriculum that will engage undergraduate and graduate students in both course-based and experiential learning. The end result will be that more of Cornell’s outstanding students in human and veterinary medicine, nutrition, agriculture, and basic sciences will make lifelong contributions to global health, particularly in resource-poor settings.
