Magazines: Yale Public Health and Focus Articles

When Charles-Edward Amory Winslow arrived at Yale in 1915 to open a new Department of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, one of his first acts was to ensure that public health courses were also listed as electives in the offerings of other Yale schools.

Pennsylvania children living near unconventional oil and gas (UOG) developments at birth were two to three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia between the ages of 2 and 7 as those who did not live near this oil and gas activity, after accounting for other factors that could influence cancer risk, a novel study from the Yale School of Public Health has found.

For people with coronary heart disease, beta blockers can improve survival and quality of life, while aspirin and other antiplatelet medications can reduce the risk of a heart attack.

A team of Yale-led researchers can now quantify the factors causing changes in DNA that contribute most to cancer growth in tumors of most major tumor types.

The economic burden of Lyme disease in the U.S. could be nearly $1 billion annually, according to a study by researchers from the Yale School of Public Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and health officials from four states heavily impacted by the disease.

A new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline launched by the U.S. government is supposed to make it easier for people experiencing a mental health crisis to get help. But a Yale School of Public Health study has found that not all Americans will have the same access to appropriate follow-up care.

From documenting potential war crimes in Ukraine to investigating malaria in Senegal, Yale School of Public Health scientists collaborate with partners across the globe in addressing some of the most pressing health challenges of today.

From advocating for South African gold miners with occupational lung disease to challenging Connecticut quarantine policies during the 2016 Ebola epidemic, Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP) has been an active voice on pressing global, national, and local health issues for the past decade.

Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim have partnered to create a Biomedical Data Science Fellowship program for postdoctoral fellows.

The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) is documenting potential violations of international law and crimes against humanity by Russia and Russia-aligned forces in Ukraine as part of a new Conflict Observatory initiative led by the U.S. Department of State.