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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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Overlooked, Undervalued: Cornell Research Seeks to Elevate Home Care Workers

Cornell Chronicle
Professor Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08 is part of an ambitious, multidisciplinary research program aimed at elevating the value of home care workers.
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Overlooked, Undervalued: Cornell Research Seeks to Elevate Home Care Workers

Improving Working Conditions for Better Patient Care: ILR-Weill Cornell Research

An ILR-Weill Cornell Medicine collaboration highlights the benefits of prioritizing enhanced working conditions for frontline health care workers as a way to improve long-term patient care.
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Improving Working Conditions for Better Patient Care: ILR-Weill Cornell Research

Study: Disease-Specific Training Benefits Home Care Workers

Cornell Chronicle

New cross-campus research from Ariel Avgar and Weill Cornell Medicine shows that home care workers who have been trained in heart failure are more satisfied with their jobs and feel more prepared and confident working with heart failure patients.

A home health care workers helps a patient out of her wheel chair.
Study: Disease-Specific Training Benefits Home Care Workers
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Contact Us

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homecarework@cornell.edu