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This series spotlights the amazing students in the YSPH Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) program. This month focuses on students who are studying tuberculosis (TB). Here, Charlene Jamie Miciano, BA ’24, MPH ’25, tells us about the program and some of her exciting research in a Q&A format.
- March 12, 2024
Mayur M. Desai, YSPH professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases), and Erika Linnander, director of the Global Health Leadership Initiative at YSPH, teamed with two faculty members from the University of Arizona's Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and India's JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research and the Public Health Research Institute of India to create the Research Leadership Program. Its purpose is to build leadership and mentorship among public health scholars from India’s underrepresented groups.
- March 11, 2024
Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.
- March 10, 2024Source: The Washington Post
Albert Ko, MD, Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health and professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and of medicine (infectious diseases), discusses Brazil’s dengue fever crisis.
- March 05, 2024
The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for two senior military officials from Russia just days after the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab releases its report on systematic damage to Ukraine’s power generation and transmission facilities.
- March 05, 2024
Yale School of Public Health faculty are collaborating with colleagues at Cambodia’s National Institute of Public Health to establish a Master of Public Health in Health Economics and Financing program in the Southeast Asian country.
- February 29, 2024Source: Wired
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab verifies 66 instances of conflict-related damage to Ukraine’s power generation and transmission infrastructure. Some of the damage occurred far from the front lines of war zones leaving millions of civilians without electricity during the height of winter. The researchers said the widespread and systematic damage could be a violation of international humanitarian law.
- February 29, 2024Source: The New York Times
The 2022 outbreak of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, was curbed in large part by drastic changes in behavior among gay and bisexual men, and not by vaccination, according to a new analysis published on Thursday in the journal Cell.
- February 27, 2024Source: CBS News
According to an estimate from the Ukrainian government, there are nearly 30,000 kids that have been forcibly removed or deported from their homes during the war with Russia. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, compares the kidnapping of children during war to the use of a nuclear weapon.
- February 27, 2024Source: The World
In Brazil, there’s a huge epidemic of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease that causes a lot of fever and muscle pain, and can sometimes lead to serious health complications. YSPH Professor Albert Ko is featured in this public radio international news report.