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Our Mission

Elevate Home Health Care Workers

We aim to improve the status quo for undervalued and overlooked healthcare workers who provide care to people at home. Our multidisciplinary initiative seeks to elevate the value of home care workers while improving their working conditions and patient outcomes through rigorous research and community engagement.

Our Team

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Ariel Avgar, PhD

  • David M. Cohen ’73 Professor of Labor Relations, ILR School
  • Director, Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW)
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Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, MS

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Director, Initiative on Home Care Work
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Madeline Sterling

Nicki Dell, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Information and Computer Science, Cornell Tech
  • Director of Technological Innovation, Initiative on Home Care Work
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Nicki Dell

Stories

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How AI Can be Implemented More Fairly in Home Health Care and Low-Wage Work Settings

New findings from the Initiative on Home Care Work at Cornell University’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) points to how stakeholders can use AI more fairly in home health care and low-wage work settings.
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How AI Can be Implemented More Fairly in Home Health Care and Low-Wage Work Settings

Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

Cornell Chronicle
A study led by co-authors Nicola Dell and Ian René Solano-Kamaiko reveals that home care workers are unaware of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems being implemented in their workplace and highlights the need for greater transparency.
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Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

CAROW Examines How Unions Can Help Direct Care Workers

A pair of published papers released by the CAROW Initiative on Home Care Work shows that unionized direct care workers are likely to earn more money and are more likely to have employer-sponsored health care insurance and pension plans than non-unionized direct care workers.
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CAROW Examines How Unions Can Help Direct Care Workers
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homecarework@cornell.edu