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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.
- April 26, 2024Source: Yale Insights
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.
- April 25, 2024
Upkeep Care, an artificial intelligence platform the connects older adults and caregivers to resources, topped a record 36 teams to win the 2024 Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, presented by InnovateHealth Yale (IHY). The four-member team, including three Yale School of Public Health students, bested three other Yale student-led teams with their final pitch at Startup Yale, the university’s largest entrepreneurial event, April 5 at the Hotel Marcel in New Haven.
- April 25, 2024
The rare emergence of overlapping 13- and 17-year cicada broods in parts of the U.S. is expected to produce continuous insect buzzing that can be overwhelming to individuals with sensory sensitivities.
- April 25, 2024Source: Los Angeles Times
Mosquito control agencies in Southern California are desperate to tamp down an invasive mosquito — called Aedes aegypti — that has exploded in recent years. YSPH Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh provides insight.
- April 24, 2024Source: Yale Daily News
The program develops Yale students’ interest in innovation to solve global health challenges through collaboration, creative methods and business approaches.
- April 24, 2024Source: Yale News
A new study co-authored by Yale economist and School of Public Health Associate Professor Zack Cooper links rising prices for hospital care to lax antitrust enforcement.
- April 24, 2024Source: The Michigan Daily
YSPH Associate Professor Xi Chen recently spoke with The Michigan Daily about his research paper, “Something in the pipe: The Flint water crisis and health at birth.”
- April 22, 2024Source: Yale News
Proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid, including raising the age of Medicare eligibility, could lead to thousands of additional deaths, a Yale study shows.
- April 22, 2024Source: Yale News
Yale researchers say that nasal application of neomycin shows promise in the prevention and treatment of respiratory viral infections.