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Jeanne Moseley, MPH

Professor of Practice

Department of Public & Ecosystem Health

Public & Ecosystem Health Cornell Public Health

Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Ithaca, NY 14853

Profile

Research/Clinical Interests

There are five complementary focal areas that guide Jeanne Moseley’s current public health practice and research interests. They include 1) cultivating strong engaged learning partnerships and programs, 2) integrating the art and the humanities to expand and deepen the critical-thinking, communication and practice capacities of students, practitioners, researchers and clinicians, 3) utilizing evaluation methodologies to strengthen programs, partnerships and pedagogy 4) valuing and inviting student participation and leadership and 5) expanding existing partnerships to support new collaborations, research projects and initiatives focused on the linkages between the environment and human health.

Project Highlights:
Poetry for Good Public and Ecosystem Health - An Innovative Model for Utilizing Poetry to Build Critical Reflection Practice and Enhance Public Health Education among US Public Health and Tanzanian Medical Students

Poetry serves as an innovative and experimental tool to deepen critical reflection practice and create a space for students to explore, share, and connect their lived experiences to the practice of public health and medicine. During the 2024 and 2025 Cornell and  KCMC University collaborative global and public health policy case study program, a new innovative curricular component, Poetry for Good Public and Ecosystem Health was developed and integrated into the program.  In these sessions, poetry is  used as a tool to center health promotion, social connection, critical reflection practice, and creative expression, while also drawing attention to the intersectionality of human and ecosystem health. These new sessions create opportunities for story-telling, sharing, and documenting the human experience as it relates to ecosystem health and well-being. The integration of poetry and the arts into public health education at the graduate and undergraduate level is a novel pedagogical approach. Our team is currently conducting a qualitative evaluation of the Poetry for Good Public and Ecosystem Health curricular initiative with funding support from Cornell’s Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute

“The Art of Global and Public Health” - Utilizing an HIV/AIDS Study Gallery to Integrate the Arts and Humanities into Global and Public Health Education

Since 2015, Jeanne Moseley has collaborated with Cornell University’s Johnson Museum to curate and facilitate an interactive HIV/AIDS study gallery for more than 500 undergraduate and graduate students. The study gallery features the photography of Brian Weil, an artist and activist, who fought to make AIDS a subject of cultural and political discourse. Alongside Weil’s photos are HIV/AIDS global awareness education posters, providing insights into how culture and politics structure public health communications. While grappling with the photos, students are challenged to think deeply about the history of HIV/AIDS and to put human faces and stories to the dramatic numbers they learn about in class. These sessions enrich students' understanding of how political-economic and sociocultural factors shape HIV risk, vulnerability, stigma, and discrimination. Through the integration of experiential learning sessions utilizing the arts and humanities, students gain a deeper appreciation for interprofessionalism, social and historical context, and are challenged to think more critically and creatively about public health issues and responses. Here’s a poster from the 2025 CUGH conference highlighting this project. 

Education

  • 2003: Graduate Fellow, Center for Health, Culture, and Society, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  • 2002: Master of Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA                 
  • 1996: Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA  

Biography/Professional Experience

Jeanne Moseley is a Professor of Practice with Cornell University’s MPH Program in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine. Prior to this position, Jeanne served as a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Director of the undergraduate Global Health Program at Cornell University. For 16 years, she taught, developed and evaluated curriculum for the Global and Public Health Sciences major and University-wide minor in Global Health, working closely with faculty, staff and students from across the University to develop and offer experiential and engaged learning programs in global and public health. She was the lead instructor for numerous undergraduate courses and won awards recognizing her passion and commitment to community engaged learning, teaching and student leadership development. Jeanne was also responsible for the direct administration and implementation of Global Health partnerships and programs in Tanzania, India and Zambia. 

Before joining Cornell in 2006, Jeanne cultivated a diverse professional and academic portfolio in the fields global and public health, adult education, international development and engaged learning. These experiences include two years as a US Peace Corps volunteer in a rural village in The Gambia. This formative experience demonstrated the importance of community engaged practice on issues of public health and allowed her to strengthen her cross-cultural, interpersonal and communication skills. After this, she taught in a public school in Atlanta, Georgia where the majority of the students lived in subsidized housing. While teaching, she was confronted with the ways that structural poverty impacts the educational and health outcomes of children in the United States. These combined experiences motivated her to pursue a Master of Public Health at Emory University with a focus on program development, management, evaluation and qualitative research methods. As a student and post-graduate fellow, she conducted research with HIV positive women in South Africa and coordinated a food insecurity study with Sudanese refugees. 

Following this, she accepted a position with the HIV/AIDS Bureau of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. For three years, she directed and led an outcome evaluation study on Rikers Island with incarcerated adult males, while also collaborating with and supporting community-based organizations to improve their HIV prevention program monitoring and evaluation. Her professional trajectory has provided her with important opportunities to be reflexive, build relationships across difference, lead diverse teams and collaborate with colleagues and community members to address complex social inequities in the fields of global and public health both locally and globally.

Awards and Honors

Professional/Academic Affiliations

  • Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)
  • American Public Health Association
  • Consortium of Universities for Global Health
  • Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Faculty Fellow
  • Engaged Faculty Fellow, Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
  • Institute for African Development Faculty Associate, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. Utilizing Ripple Effects Mapping to Assess the Impact of an Undergraduate Global Health Program - Annals of Global Health. Bailes, T., Haller, M. and Moseley, J., 2023. Utilizing Ripple Effects Mapping to Assess the Impact of an Undergraduate Global Health Program. Annals of Global Health, 89(1), p.2.DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3933
  2. Moseley, J., Mboya, I., Haller, M., Lasher, E., Amour, C., Msuya, S. and Manongi, R., 2022. ‘Pamoja Tunaweza’: A Collaborative Program Model for Global Health Training & Education. Annals of Global Health, 88(1), p.95. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3791
  3. Kiely R, Moseley J, Stotzfus R.  (2017) Understanding service-learning basics and best practices in Global Health Experiential Education: From theory to practice. (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107844
  4. Anderson L, Hadzibegovic  D, Moseley J, Sellen D.  Household food insecurity shows associations with food intake, social support utilization and dietary change among refugee adult caregivers resettled in the United States.  Ecology of Food and Nutrition 2014; 53 (3): 312-332.  
  5. Freudenberg N, Moseley J, Labriola M, Daniels J, Murrill C. Characteristics of people leaving New York City jails by age, gender, and race/ethnicity: implications for public health interventions. Public Health Reports 2006; 122(6):733-43.