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YSPH Professor Dr. Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, and the International Low-Grade Glioma (LGG) Registry that she leads are mentioned in this article, which provides resources for people who are impacted by a tumor diagnosis. Among the LGG resources are a map-design by YSPH student Wanjing Chen, 'MPH '24, (biostatistics), showing where registry participants reside. May is National Brain Tumor Awareness Month.

Private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing behavioral health services in some states, according to a new study by researchers from Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale School of Public Health.

A new COVID-19 variant nicknamed FLiRT is threatening to cause a summer wave of COVID infections.

A new independent report confirms that an additional 11 communities in the area around El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, were razed by apparent arson between April 20-25.

Using multiple nicotine products can be associated with higher levels of nicotine dependence among youth and increased mortality in adults, compared with the use of one product alone, according to a recent study in Preventative Medicine. Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, is lead author.

The majority of the estimated $206 billion resulting from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement have not gone to address smoking or public health. Following a similar settlement of a multi-state litigation, the state of Connecticut is expecting around $600 million to address the state’s opioid overdose crisis, which resulted in 1,340 overdose deaths in 2023 alone. To avoid the experience of the Tobacco funds, Yale faculty are proactively providing recommendations on how to spend these funds.

“It then can be challenging to have regulations keep pace with the latest science,” said Dr. Nicole Deziel, a Yale Cancer Center researcher and associate professor of environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health.

Some 800,000 people inside Al-Fashir city have no escape route from incoming attacks by the Rapid Support Forces' Janjaweed as violence in Sudan spreads. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, has been closely monitoring the situation.

Kaakpema Yelpaala (KP) is the new faculty director of InnovateHealth Yale and a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. In this episode of Impact & Innovation, KP reflects on his roller-coaster journey which navigated through the non-profit and for-profit worlds in Africa, comparing these two worlds and digital health start-ups in Africa versus the U.S.