Journal

This summer, a team of seven Cornell students traveled to Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic to volunteer with Orphanage Outreach—a non-profit organization serving orphaned, abandoned, and disadvantaged children in the northwestern region of the country. Because of our interest, Orphanage Outreach dedicated the two weeks the Cornell Health International Team spent there to organize health camps more »

Like many of you, I have stood in the supermarket looking at, well, tomatoes. I was holding three in my hands when, across the aisle, I spied yet more tomatoes. They looked like mine. They smelled like mine. They felt like mine. However, they had a different sign above them. “Organic” was written in scrawled more »

This past summer, I traveled to Monte Cristi in the Dominican Republic with six other members of Cornell Health International to volunteer with the organization, Orphanage Outreach. While there, we were able to spend a remarkable afternoon in Dajabón, a town on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Twice a week in Dajabón, more »

Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It infects 6.2 million new people each year and more than 50% of all sexually active adults at some point in their lives. There are over forty strains of HPV that can infect the genital area. The symptoms of infection more »