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Kei-Hoi Cheung, PhD, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to research environmental health data and drinking water contamination using AI methods.

This Alumni Spotlight focuses on Huangdi (Denise) Yi, PhD '20 (Biostatistics), who leads the statistical efforts in the post-market stage of oncology drugs for a pharmaceutical company.

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.

One of the largest multiomics analyses to date examines hallmarks associated with COVID-19 severity and mortality, and how these factors interact with one another.

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 Preventive Medicine. Patricia Simon, PhD, assistant professor adjunct of psychiatry, is lead author.

Award-winning statistician Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, has been appointed Yale School of Public Health’s inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity, an important new leadership position that reflects the school’s focus on data science as a critical pillar for the future of public health. She joins YSPH on Aug. 1, 2024.

Yale Cancer Center researchers will present their new cancer research findings at the 2024 AACR annual meeting. A few of the presenting YCC researchers offer their key study takeaways and the significance for patients and oncologists.

Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians and scientists will share new data for breakthrough and emerging cancer treatments as well as new discoveries in obesity, tobacco, evolution, and early onset cancers in early April at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting.

A new Yale study is the first to describe the short- and longer-term risk of hospital readmission for older persons who have had major surgery.