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