Why join CIHF?

The  Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) is a ground-breaking initiative providing a unique trans-disciplinary platform for educating students, creating new knowledge through research, and exchanging information from the fields of hospitality, design, and health management/policy with a broad set of audiences. Through CIHF’s many activities, students and faculty connect with top-level professionals and build lasting relationships with alumni and other industry leaders.

As the intellectual home for research bridging the fields of hospitality, design thinking, and health management/policy at Cornell, the center offers a portal to cutting-edge ideas to help advance service excellence in healthcare, wellness, senior living, and related areas. Our students combine theory with hands-on learning to build a rich understanding of these fields. 

CIHF is supported by a network of corporate members critical to the mission of integrating the fields of hospitality, health management/policy, and design thinking to enhance service excellence in healthcare, wellness, senior living, and related industries.