Anna Zonderman worked with researchers from the Anna Freud Centre to implement a longitudinal electroencephalography (EEG) study in collaboration with Kids Company, a charity that provides practical and therapeutic support to vulnerable children in London. The study—which complements existing evidence that Kids Company’s interventions positively influence behavioral outcomes among participating children—will evaluate the effects of stress on neural functioning in 13- to 17-year-old boys and assess whether support from Kids Company correlates with positive changes in these effects over time. This photo shows her adjusting individual EEG sensors to optimize data collection.
Community involvement is important at YSPH. Professor Jeanette Ickovics serves as Co-Director for Community Engagement for YCCI and Director for the Community Alliance for Research & Engagement (CARE). CARE staff are shown doing blood glucose testing for Diabetes Awareness Day.
As part of a health initiative in New Haven, surveyors interviewed city residents about their health and health habits.
CARE staff provide information on diabetes as part of Diabetes Awareness Day.
A wide-ranging exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum (co-curated by the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) focusses on the food challenges of the 21st century, including changing eating habits and alarming levels of obesity. This display shows the annual food consumption of an average American. Photo credit: Harold Shapiro
Susan Godshall, Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce, participating in the CARE Future Search Conference.

Social and Behavioral Sciences Program

The Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Program is a two-year program within the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Division leading to an MPH degree. The primary emphasis is on understanding behavioral, psychological, and social influences on health status, and on altering adverse lifestyles and psychosocial risk factors at the level of the individual, primary social groups and communities. Areas of excellence include Psycho-social and Behavioral Interventions and Women’s Health Research. The SBS curriculum is unique in that it combines courses in social and behavioral sciences and epidemiology. Students are trained in the theory and methods of the social and behavioral sciences, as they relate to public health. SBS students matriculate each year with diverse undergraduate and graduate degrees.

SBS Students Share Their Research Experience

The health of care providers

04/19/2012: A researcher at the School of Public Health is investigating how exposure to a loved one’s suffering affects, in turn, the health of the caregiver. >>>

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. >>>

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. >>>