Our Mission
Elevate Home Health Care Workers
Our initiative is an ambitious, multidisciplinary research program to elevate the value of home care workers while improving their working conditions and patient outcomes.
Our mission is to improve the status quo for marginalized and deprioritized healthcare workers who provide crucial services at patients’ homes. We aim to fundamentally change industry attitudes and impact lasting policy changes by generating novel and innovative studies. Leveraging expertise from ILR, Weil Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech Campus, our work will examine the current home health care space while pushing forward the concept that we can do better for patients and the workforce.
“I would love to change the way we think about providing care to people in the home. I would love to have our multidisciplinary group really push these ideas forward at a large scale. I would love to see home health care workers valued and compensated in the way they should. I've had the privilege of being a part of patients’ lives, and I really see what's important to them. And a lot of what they say is important is being able to stay at home and feel good. And I think if we can do research that helps them to get to that goal, that really fulfills me.”
- Dr. Madeline Sterling, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
“We're not providing the kind of care that we're capable of providing as a national healthcare system. Our system doesn't invest in workers as a core part of delivering the kind of care that we should be delivering, given the investments that we make. And so, the work focuses on a slice of that. How do we make sure that we're providing the kind of care we should be providing, focused on one segment of the healthcare workforce: home care.”
- Ariel Avgar,David M. Cohen ’73 Professor of Labor Relations Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research Director, Center for Applied Research on Work
Our Team
- David M. Cohen ’73 Professor of Labor Relations
- Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research
- Director, Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW)
Ariel Avgar is a Professor at the ILR School at Cornell University and Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research.
- Health Services researcher in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine
- Director, Initiative on Home Care and Home Health Care Workers
Dr. Madeline Sterling is a board certified general internist and a health services researcher in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
- Associate Professor, Information and Computer Science
- Director of Technological Innovation, Initiative on Home Care and Home Health Care Workers
Nicki is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University.
