Associate Professor, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health
Food Systems and Health Concentration Lead, Master in Public Health Program
Faculty Fellow, K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, Cornell Atkinson Center & Center for Health Equity
Director, Migrations Initiative, Einaudi Center for International Studies
Core Faculty, Southeast Asia Program
Contact: kfiorella@cornell.edu
Office: 101K Atkinson Hall
Postdocs
Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow
Fields: Human nutrition, sustainable food systems, aquatic foods, biodiversity, digital dietary data collection, dietary modelling, low-resource contexts
Contact: lydia.omeara@cornell.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Fields: Public health, environmental epidemiology, exposure science, biomarkers, water and health, One Health
Contact: lna24@cornell.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Fields: Aquatic science, freshwater ecology, water quality, limnology, machine learning, remote sensing, and ecosystem health assessment.
Contact: mm3586@cornell.edu
Graduate Students
PhD Candidate, Natural Resources
Website: https://nicolevenker.com/
Fields: human migration, environmental governance, resource access, food sovereignty, political ecology, Southeast Asia
Contact: ntt22@cornell.edu
PhD Student, Natural Resources
Fields: socioeconomics, human dimensions of natural resources, valuation of ecosystem goods and services, food systems, food and nutritional security, community development
Contact: hoo6@cornell.edu
Combined DVM-PhD Student, Public & Ecosystem Health
Fields: Public and ecosystem health, microbiomes, antimicrobial resistance, aquatic food systems, data analysis, public health policy, aquatic animal health
Contact: geg64@cornell.edu
Research Group Alumni
Sebastian Heilpern
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Website: https://sebheilpern.weebly.com/
Cornell Schmidt AI Postdoc, 2023-2025
Fields: biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services, food systems, trait-based modelling
Contact: s.heilpern@cornell.edu
Eric M. Teplitz
Veterinary Medical Officer and Epidemiologist, USDA
PhD Student, Biomedical & Biological Sciences
Fields: epidemiology, food systems, livestock health, aquaculture, wildlife conservation
Contact: eteplitz@gmail.com
Postdoc, Great Lakes Fishery Commission
PhD Student, Natural Resources
Fields: social-ecological systems, community-based research and policy, public health through One Health, mixed methods, spatial analysis, and participatory methods
Contact: jlc558@cornell.edu
Taylor Rijos
Excelsior Fellow, NY State Department of Public Health
MPH Student, Food Systems and Health, 2023-2025
Fields: Public and ecosystem health, aquatic food systems, environmental justice and policy, coastal resilience
Contact: tlr65@cornell.edu
Sowad Ocean Karim
Excelsior Fellow, NY State Department of Public Health
MPH Student, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 2023-2025
Fields: Public and Ecosystem Health, Epidemiology, Human Health, Data Analysis, Environmental Conservation, Environmental & Social Justice,
Contact: sok27@cornell.edu
San Htoi Lun Labya
MSc Student, Natural Resources, 2021-2023
Fields: Conservation and social research, ethnic conflict, Burma (Myanmar), mammals, protected areas
Contact: sl2469@cornell.edu
Nikte (Raul) Campo Lizama, MPH
Research Support Specialist, 2023-2024
Fields: Public and ecosystem health, food and nutrition security, qualitative research, plant sciences
Contact: rec276@cornell.edu | raulcampolizama@gmail.com
Kathleen Epstein
Director of Conservation, Maine; The Nature Conservancy
Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023
Fields: land and wildlife management, resource use and access, well-being, environmental governance
Contact: kathleen.epstein@cornell.edu
Elizabeth Bageant
James A. & Louise McClure Center for Public Policy Research
Cornell Research Support Specialist, 2021-2023
Field: climate change impacts and human responses, human wellbeing, human behavior, poverty, inequality, food systems, food security
Contact: erb32@cornell.edu
Kira Lancker
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Visiting Scholar at Cornell University; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig, 2021
Website: https://www.idiv.de/en/profile/993.html
Fields: resource economics, food security, fisheries, economic value of biodiversity, energy economics
Contact: kl663@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
Cornell Postdoctoral Associate, 2019-2021
Fields: Epidemiology, food preferences, global nutrition and health, infant and child feeding, maternal and child nutrition
Contact: ho229@cornell.edu
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Cornell Postdoctoral Associate, 2019-2021
Fields: Conservation, community forest management, environmental economics, impact evaluation, planetary health, protected areas
Contact: ranaivo.rasolofoson@cornell.edu
Nutrition Director, Cornell Cooperative Extension
Cornell MPH Student
Fields: Food Systems and Health
Contact: art228@cornell.edu
Adele Hancock
MPS Student, Natural Resources
Fields: sustainable systems, marine conservation, environmental conservation, planetary health
Contact: arh248@cornell.edu
Fiorella Research Group 