Assistant Professor, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health
Food Systems and Health Concentration of the Masters in Public Health
Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center & Center for Health Equity
Contact: kfiorella@cornell.edu
Office: S2-004 Shurman Hall
Postdocs and Research Staff
Elizabeth Bageant
Research Support Specialist
Field: climate change impacts and human responses, human wellbeing, human behavior, poverty, inequality, food systems, food security
Contact: erb32@cornell.edu
Sebastian Heilpern
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
Website: https://sebheilpern.weebly.com/
Fields: biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services, food systems, trait-based modelling
Contact: s.heilpern@cornell.edu
Kathleen Epstein
Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow
Fields: land and wildlife management, resource use and access, well-being, environmental governance
Contact: kathleen.epstein@cornell.edu
Kira Lancker
Visiting Scholar at Cornell University; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, University of Leipzig
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
Graduate Students
PhD Student, Natural Resources
Fields: social-ecological systems, community-based research and policy, public health through planetary health and/or one health, mixed methods, spatial analysis, and participatory methods
Contact: jlc558@cornell.edu
Nicole Tu-Muang
PhD Student, Natural Resources
Fields: socio-ecological systems, human migration, freshwater fisheries, fish consumption and health, environmental justice
Contact: ntt22@cornell.edu
Horace Owiti Onyango
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
https://kmfri.co.ke/index.php/component/comprofiler/userprofile/howiti
Contact: hoo6@cornell.edu
Eric M. Teplitz
PhD Student, Biomedical & Biological Sciences
Fields: epidemiology, food systems, livestock health, aquaculture, wildlife conservation
Contact: eteplitz@gmail.com
San Htoi Lun Labya
MSc Student, Natural Resources
Fields: Conservation and social research, ethnic conflict, Burma (Myanmar), mammals, protected areas
Contact: sl2469@cornell.edu
Research Group Alumni
Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University
Cornell Postdoctoral Associate
Fields: Epidemiology, food preferences, global nutrition and health, infant and child feeding, maternal and child nutrition
Contact: ho229@cornell.edu
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University
Cornell Postdoctoral Associate
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
