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A new COVID-19 variant nicknamed FLiRT is threatening to cause a summer wave of COVID infections.
- May 01, 2024Source: News Africa
A new independent report confirms that an additional 11 communities in the area around El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, were razed by apparent arson between April 20-25.
- April 30, 2024Source: CNN
“It then can be challenging to have regulations keep pace with the latest science,” said Dr. Nicole Deziel, a Yale Cancer Center researcher and associate professor of environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health.
- April 30, 2024
The majority of the estimated $206 billion resulting from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement have not gone to address smoking or public health. Following a similar settlement of a multi-state litigation, the state of Connecticut is expecting around $600 million to address the state’s opioid overdose crisis, which resulted in 1,340 overdose deaths in 2023 alone. To avoid the experience of the Tobacco funds, Yale faculty are proactively providing recommendations on how to spend these funds.
- April 26, 2024Source: The New Arab
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, 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 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 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.