2011 News Directory
Statins May Reduce Mortality in Influenza Patients
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12/16/2011: The two most common weapons to fight influenza are an annual immunization and the use of antiviral drugs. A team of investigators has found that statins—a drug widely used to lower cholesterol—may offer additional benefits that complements these approaches and reduces mortality among patients with influenza.
Dengue Fever as a Children’s Game
12/15/2011: Dengue fever is no laughing matter. But several Yale students and others are hoping that the potentially lethal tropical disease makes for an entertaining children’s game. >>>
Indoor Tanning Linked to Skin Cancer in Young People
12/02/2011: People who used indoor tanning beds are at a significantly higher risk of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC) before the age of 40 than people who never used indoor tanning beds, a new study by Yale Cancer Center researchers has found. BCC is an extremely common type of skin cancer, more frequent than all other cancers combined. >>>
Ethiopia as a Model for Health Care Leadership
11/21/2011: Despite extensive poverty and limited resources, Ethiopia has made impressive strides in improving its health care system and can serve as a model for other countries seeking to make similar gains, a new paper by Yale researchers suggests. >>>
Brain Tumor Group Narrows Search for Genetic Susceptibility
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11/14/2011: An international consortium of researchers, including members from the Yale School of Public Health, has narrowed the search for the gene or genes associated with inherited susceptibility to a malignant brain cancer to a region on chromosome 17. >>>
Film Project Garners Global Health Award for Recent Graduate
11/04/2011: When it comes to completing a master’s thesis, few public health students turn to the medium of film. >>>
Downs Fellows Present International Research Findings
11/04/2011: Back from challenging international research assignments in countries as diverse as Colombia and Malaysia, the 2011 Downs Fellows presented their findings at an annual symposium and poster session in Winslow Auditorium. >>>
Big Food Exhibit Coming to the Peabody in February
10/18/2011: A wide-ranging exhibit on the food challenges of the 21st century, including changing eating habits and alarming levels of obesity in the United States and beyond, opens at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History early next year. >>>
Promoting Health Through Improved Relationships
10/11/2011: The daily pressures faced by young couples with a family often result in a troubled relationship, inattention to children, and potentially lead to sexually risky behaviors outside the relationship, putting both partners at increased risk of HIV and other serious diseases. >>>
Halloween, Valentine’s Day Found to Influence Birth Timing
10/10/2011: Halloween and Valentine’s Day appear to influence when expecting mothers give birth, new research at the Yale School of Public Health has found. >>>
YSPH Lecturer, Alumna Receives Statewide Public Health Award
10/07/2011: Citing her policy responses to the AIDS epidemic and an enduring and effective advocacy on the part of children and other groups most impacted by health inequities, the Connecticut Public Health Association has bestowed its highest honor—the C.-E. A. Winslow Award—on Shelley Geballe, an alumna and now a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. >>>
YSPH Offering Colorful Tresses to Support Breast Cancer Research
10/06/2011: October is breast cancer awareness month and the Yale School of Public Health will be supporting the cause in a colorful way.
Paying People to Kick the Habit—Novel Anti-Smoking Effort to be Launched in Connecticut
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10/04/2011: An unorthodox anti-smoking effort that offers at-risk people financial incentives if they successfully quit tobacco—and smaller rewards for progress toward doing so—has been designed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and will be implemented statewide in coming months. >>>
Former Yale Researcher Calls for Renewed Effort Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
10/03/2011: Neglected tropical diseases exact a staggering toll on the world’s poorest people, taking years off their lives and for those who survive, leading to decreased productivity, stunted physical growth, stigmatization and even reduced mental ability. >>>
Smartphone Solution to Infant Mortality Awarded Gates Grant
09/21/2011: A doctoral candidate at the School of Public Health is part of an international team of researchers that has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project that uses smartphones to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Kenya. >>>
On the Lookout for a New Tick-Borne Disease
09/19/2011: Yale School of Public Health researchers in collaboration with Russian scientists have discovered a new tick-borne disease that they believe may occur in the United States. >>>
Marked Health Disadvantage Identified Among Serbia’s Roma
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09/15/2011: Romani men and women living in Serbia are significantly more likely than their peers to be at risk for poor health, with Romani women being particularly vulnerable. >>>
Public Health Training Center at Yale Created With $2.6 Million Grant
09/09/2011: A new $2.6 million federal grant will allow for a vastly expanded training program for the public health workforce in Connecticut and Rhode Island with a special emphasis on addressing health disparities such as HIV/AIDS in underserved communities. >>>
Folic acid supplements during pregnancy not connected to childhood asthma risk
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09/07/2011: It has been known for 20 years that folic acid (folate) supplements taken during pregnancy reduce the risk of neural tube defects and possibly other congenital malformations. >>>
Genetic Link Identified in Common Type of Brain Tumor
08/18/2011: Researchers have found a significant link between the most common type of brain tumor in the United States—meningiomas—and a patient’s family history, suggesting that genetics play an important role in the development of the potentially debilitating lesions. >>>
YSPH Leads Public Health Training in China
08/09/2011: Nearly 100 researchers gathered in Chengdu City, China, in May for an advanced epidemiology and biostatistics workshop led by the Yale School of Public Health. >>>
Study Examines Effectiveness of Safe Motherhood Project in Indonesia
07/21/2011: Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health conducted an independent analysis of a multimillion-dollar program funded by the World Bank to improve maternal and child health in rural Indonesia. >>>
A summer boot camp for biostatistics grows and incorporates texting
07/19/2011: A biostatistics boot camp for area high school students is only in its second year of operation, but is growing rapidly and incorporating technology that appeals to every teenager.
Dean Cleary Reappointed
06/22/2011: Yale President Richard C. Levin on Tuesday formally announced the reappointment of Paul D. Cleary as dean of the Yale School of Public Health. Dean Cleary’s second five-year term begins July 1 and will run through 2016.
Study Reveals Health and Safety Concerns for Women with a History of Being Trafficked
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06/20/2011: A significant number of female sex workers in India may have originally entered sex work via trafficking and are likely to face more safety and health risks than other women involved in the sex trade, new research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. >>>
Alumni Day 2011
06/16/2011: Warnings about global climate from the environmental community have largely gone unheeded, but public health professionals have the ability to reframe the debate and move the issue into public’s consciousness.
Yale, China to Create Bioethics Training Program
06/10/2011: Yale University will further its ongoing scientific relationship with China through a newly awarded grant that allows for the development of a bioethics research training program at one of the country’s major medical universities. >>>
YSPH Class of 2011 Urged to Add “Healing Touch” to the World
05/26/2011: Gloomy weather outside Battell Chapel did little to dampen the mood inside as hundreds of people gathered to celebrate a new generation of public health professionals.
Prenatal or early life exposure to antibiotics linked to risk of childhood asthma
05/23/2011: Antibiotic use in early life may increase the risk of asthma in children, a review conducted by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health has found.
Invasion of the Bloodsuckers—YSPH researcher curates Yale Peabody Museum exhibit
05/18/2011: An exhibition opening May 28, 2011, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History features those dreaded little creatures notorious for preying on humans and sucking their blood: bedbugs, head lice, pubic lice, mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. >>>
Study Finds Retired Blue-Collar Workers Have Higher BMI Than Others
05/17/2011: Laborers and other workers in traditionally blue-collar jobs have a “significantly” higher body mass index after retirement than their peers who worked in management and other executive positions, a study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. >>>
YSPH Names Teacher (T. Lewis) and Mentor (S. Geballe) of the Year
05/16/2011: YSPH announces Teacher of the Year (T. Lewis) and Mentor of the Year (S. Geballe). >>>
Yale Panel Examines Movie’s Conclusions and Claims About Lyme Disease
05/09/2011: A panel of Yale experts examined some of the conclusions and claims about Lyme disease presented in the award-winning documentary film, “Under Our Skin.” >>>
YSPH Student Receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Global Health and Development Research
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04/28/2011: A student at the Yale School of Public Health is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. >>>
YSPH Professor Calls for Action Against Household Food Insecurity
04/26/2011: Many children in the United States are at high risk for developmental problems due to household food insecurity. >>>
Health Care Reform to Survive, But Cuts Likely
04/19/2011: While some form of the recent health care legislation passed in the United States will likely survive, its implementation could be delayed for years—even a decade or more—as political leaders search for ways to tame a massive budget deficit that threatens the country’s well-being.
Videophone Contact Found to Enhance At-home Care
04/19/2011: Videophone conversations between a nurse and an at-home caregiver providing for a loved one who is sick provide valuable emotional information for both parties that would be lost in a traditional telephone call, new research co-authored by a Yale School of Public Health researcher has found. >>>
Healthy Corner Stores
04/18/2011: The New Haven Healthy Corner Store Initiative is launching this month at Clinton Food Center in Fair Haven. Sponsored by Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) at Yale and the New Haven Health Department, the organizations are working with neighborhood corner store to increase their selection and marketing of healthy foods.
Connecticut’s Public Health Commissioner Returns to Her Alma Mater
04/06/2011: It was a homecoming this week for Jewel Mullen, Connecticut’s new health director, as she spent the better part of a day visiting with YSPH students and faculty at her alma mater.
Global Health Film Festival 2011
3/30/2011: The 2011 Global Health Film Festival at Yale begins April 7 and will feature seven documentary films.
Teenage Fatherhood Found to Have Far-reaching Educational, Social Consequences
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03/30/2011: Teenage fathers face a range of life consequences compared with their peers who do not have children, including decreased educational achievements and increased likelihood of early marriage or cohabitation... >>>
Researcher’s Article Cited in Health Care Reform Challenges
03/28/2011: An article on the ethics of health care reform by Jennifer Prah Ruger, Ph.D., associate professor of public health and adjunct professor of law, is playing an important role in the ongoing national debate. >>>
The State of an Epidemic
03/25/2011: It’s been 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. The virus has since caused untold suffering and millions of deaths throughout developed and developing countries. And while new research into its treatment and prevention has had some success, HIV/AIDS remains a prevailing public health threat.
Alumnus has Directorial Hand in Yale Art Gallery’s Exhibit on Art and Race in America
03/15/2011: By his own admission, retirement didn’t go as planned for Robert E. Steele. >>>
Weight Gain in Early Adulthood and Long-term Obesity Linked with Endometrial Cancer Risk
03/14/2011: Women who put on substantial weight in early adulthood were diagnosed with endometrial cancer at much younger ages than their peers who gained weight later in life. >>>
Experiences of Discrimination Linked to Higher Levels of Abdominal Fat
03/08/2011: Middle-aged women who reported frequent instances of mistreatment or discrimination were found to have significantly higher levels of one of the most toxic forms of fat—visceral fat, making them more susceptible to a range of chronic conditions, including heart disease and diabetes, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health found. >>>
Adult Mortality is Influenced by Weight at Birth, YSPH Study Finds
02/28/2011: An individual’s life expectancy is influenced by their weight at birth, with smaller babies living, on average, fewer years than their heavier peers. >>>
Rare Genetic Variant Linked to Autism, YSPH Study Finds
02/21/2011: Scientists at the Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology have established that a rare genetic variant accounts for approximately 1 percent of the incidence of autism. >>>
High School Students Ponder Implications of Public Health
02/07/2011: Just what is public health? Minority high school students from the New Haven area pondered that question early Saturday morning as part of the Tenth Annual Diversity Day at the Yale School of Public Health.
Online Networks Found to Have Negligible Effect on Health Quality Improvement
01/18/2011: While heart attack care has improved dramatically in the past few years, the use of online networks to foster communication and exchange information has played a minor role in this success, new research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. >>>
Infant Antibiotic Use May Increase Risk of Childhood Asthma, Yale Study Shows
1/4/2011: Children who receive antibiotics within the first six months of life are at a significantly increased risk of developing asthma and allergy by 6 years of age, new research by the Yale School of Public Health suggests. >>>
