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Health Promoting Campus

Cornell is a Health Promoting Campus, guided by a university-wide commitment to supporting student, staff, faculty, and community well-being.

Cornell Student Health Benefits supports this commitment by helping students access health insurance, understand their benefits, and navigate their coverage.
 

What This Means for Cornell Student Health Benefits


Cornell Student Health Benefits helps students understand and meet the university’s student health insurance requirement and provides information, resources, and support related to student health insurance and benefits. This includes helping students:

  • Understand and meet Cornell’s student health insurance requirement.
  • Learn about SHP insurance and, when eligible, how to waive SHP using other health insurance that meets the university’s health insurance criteria.
  • Understand and use health insurance benefits, including finding care while on campus, traveling, or living away from campus.
  • Learn about and enroll in Cornell’s optional dental and vision insurance.
  • Find information about SHP benefits, coverage, costs, billing, and plan documents.

 

Cornell’s Health Promoting Campus Initiative


Cornell’s Health Promoting Campus initiative focuses on individual, social, and ecological well-being. The initiative includes campus-wide work related to belonging, connection, sustainability, mental health, physical health, and the conditions that help people thrive.

Learn more: Cornell Health Promoting Campus

 

Useful links


Health Promoting Campus: Involvement

Health Promoting Campus: Toolkit

Why Cornell Requires Health Insurance

 

Questions


For questions about student health insurance or SHP benefits, contact Cornell Student Health Benefits.

For additional information about Cornell’s Health Promoting Campus initiative, visit the Health Promoting Campus website.