For the past decade, Cornell Health’s Skorton Center for Health Initiatives—named by Cornell’s Board of Trustees in 2015 for then-outgoing university president David J. Skorton, MD—has developed dozens of innovative programs, health campaigns, policy initiatives and collaborations to advance student and campus health. And with the hire of its new director, Jennifer Austin, in December 2024, the Skorton Center staff continue to embrace new opportunities to advance student and campus well-being.

A member of the health service team for over two decades, Austin fully appreciates that the roots of the Skorton Center run deep. Planted in 1980 with the hiring of Cornell’s first health educator, Janis Talbot, the center has grown through 35 years of ground-breaking work in Health Promotion—a non-clinical department among Cornell’s health services. 

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