Research
The major research focus of the SBS Division is directed toward examining the societal, social, psychological and behavioral factors that impact health. Among ongoing research projects:
- Interventions to reduce HIV/sexually transmitted infections risk among pregnant teenagers
- Attachment/risk and male partners of teenage mothers
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Group interventions promoting mental health and HIV prevention
- Psychosocial predictors of survival after myocardial infarction, hip fracture, and stroke
- Longitudinal studies of successful aging
- Racial/ethnic disparities
- Studies utilizing the Connecticut Tumor Registry
- Pregnancy and preeclampsia in pregnancy
- Exercise intervention in healthy women and breast cancer survivors
- Emotional processes that affect health in older adult relationships;
Interdisciplinary Research and Special Projects
Rolling Back Obesity
A School of Public Health program seeks to stem troubling rates of obesity and other diseases in New Haven's schools and to build a generation of healthier, better-performing students. Article starts on page 30 of the Spring 2012 edition of Yale Public Healthmagazine.Big Food
The dimensions of a growing public health crisis are outlined in a Peabody Museum exhibition that organizers hope provides healthier food for thought. Article starts on page 10 of the Spring 2012 edition of Yale Public Healthmagazine.