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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.

Ariel Avgar, PhD

  • David M. Cohen ’73 Professor of Labor Relations, ILR School
  • 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.

Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, MS

  • Associate Professor, Medicine, 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.

Nicki Dell, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Information and Computer Science, Cornell Tech
  • Director of Technological Innovation, Initiative on Home Care and Home Health Care Workers

Nicki Dell is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University.

Avgar part of NSF Future of Work project

Cornell Chronicle

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.

A frustrated healthcare aide with her head in her hands.
Avgar part of NSF Future of Work project

ILR, Weill, Cornell Tech Collaborate on Research

Cornell Chronicle

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

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ILR, Weill, Cornell Tech Collaborate on Research

Collaboration With Weill

ILR Associate Dean of Outreach Ariel Avgar is working with faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine to research the working conditions of low-wage frontline health care professionals in New York to assess the impact on patient care.
Associate Professor Ariel Avgar, Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08 and Douglas Wigdor meeting at ILR’s NYC headquarters.
Collaboration With Weill
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homecarework@cornell.edu