Cornell Health provides sensitive and confidential sexual health care – including medical services, counseling, and consultation – for all Cornell students.
Our multidisciplinary medical and mental health providers strive to deliver care that is respectful and responsive to students’ diverse needs, experiences, gender identities, sexual orientations, and values.
We provide:
- Preventive exams and health screenings (including Pap smears / cervical cancer screenings)
- Safer-sex information and pharmacy supplies
- Contraception (prescription and non-prescription birth control) and emergency contraception (visit our Pharmacy page)
- Sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention, testing, and treatment
- IUD and Nexplanon placement and removal
- Pregnancy testing, and pregnancy options counseling and referral
- HIV prevention (including PrEP prescriptions and PEP/post-exposure prophylaxis), screening, and management/support
- Transgender services including gender-affirming hormone therapy
- Assistance to victims of sexual assault
- Colposcopy as a follow-up for abnormal Pap smear results
- Counseling and support for issues and concerns related to relationships, sexual / gender identity, intimacy, sexual functioning, and sexual trauma (visit our Mental Health Care page)
- Behavioral health consultation and therapy related to sexual functioning (early ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, trouble with orgasm, etc.)
View our Sexual Health & Relationships page for more resources and information.
Getting care
Medical care
Schedule an appointment by calling 607-255-5155 during business hours (press 3 for appointments).
Or log in to myCornellHealth and select Appointments, then Medical Care. If you’re having a problem related to your sexual health, select “I have an illness or problem.” If you want to schedule a preventive exam / health screening, get tested for STIs (but don’t have symptoms), want to discuss birth control, or would like a pregnancy test, select “I need an appointment not related to an illness or problem.”
Mental health care
Visit our Mental Health Care page to learn more about the counseling and support services we offer, including individual counseling and group counseling. You may also stop by a “Let’s Talk” site for a free, informal consultation with a Cornell Health counselor.
Cost
There is no cost for asymptomatic STI screenings and preventive visits, behavioral health consultation, and some counseling services.
Most other services are $10 / visit.
Learn more on our Cost for Service page.
Confidentiality
Your care at Cornell Health is confidential. If you have questions about confidentially – related to billing, health records, or anything else – visit our Confidentiality & Patient Rights page.