Center for Applied Research on Work

Nicola Dell has been awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her work developing technology interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations, including home health care aides and survivors of intimate partner violence.

Safe and Trustworthy AI in Home Health Care Work: A team including Nicola Dell, Deborah Estrin, Madeline Sterling and Ariel Avgar will investigate the trust, safety, and privacy challenges related to implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in home health care.

Home health aides (HHAs) are vulnerable to stress, isolation and depressive symptoms, which impact their own health as well as their patients’ desire to age in place, according to new research co-authored by Professor Ariel Avgar.

Paid home care workers are helping patients manage chronic conditions and promoting general and mental health – going well beyond the personal care contributions for which they have been historically associated, according to new Cornell research.

Dr. Madeline Sterling, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Professor Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08 is part of an ambitious, multidisciplinary research program aimed at elevating the value of home care workers.

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.

Tech tools for invisible, but essential, home health care workers are being developed by a Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medicine and ILR team that includes Associate Dean Ariel Avgar as a co-principal investigator.

Associate Dean Ariel Avgar and Cornell colleagues share findings on increased risks to New York City home health care workers during pandemic.