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This series highlights the amazing students in the Yale School of Public Health’s Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) program. This month we’re focusing on students who are studying tuberculosis (TB). In this spotlight, Tejaswini (Teju) DV, MPH ’24, tells us about the program and some of her exciting research.
- March 14, 2024
Weaving together personal stories with powerful facts, journalist Linda Villarosa discussed the impact of racism in health care and strategies for the future at the February 12th Dean’s Lecture “Storytelling for Social Justice and Health”.
- March 13, 2024
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 13, 2024
This Alumni Spotlight shines on Barbra G. Rabson, MPH '83 (Health Services Administration/Epidemiology), the president and CEO of Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, where she has worked since 1998.
- 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, 2024Source: Yale Medicine
The FDA’s approval of Wegovy could help millions of Americans with both obesity and cardiovascular disease lower their risk of having a major cardiac event.
- March 11, 2024
The promise of a public health model for reducing firearm injury and death was the topic of two recent events at which Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, was a guest speaker.
- 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 08, 2024
On March 1, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a major change to its isolation guidelines for respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. Some experts worry that the shortened isolation period risks increasing transmission in some populations. YSPH Associate Professor Jason L. Schwartz discusses the new guidelines in this installment of 3 Essential Questions.