Magazines: Yale Public Health and Focus Articles

I’m writing this welcome note a few weeks into the academic year. Our students have returned to campus, our faculty are deep into the swing of teaching and mentorship, our alumni have gathered for our annual Alumni Day, we held a wonderful welcome reception for our students, staff, and faculty – and after a couple months as dean, I’m pretty sure I like Sally’s pizza, best!

A study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found that marital stress was associated with worse recovery after a heart attack in people 18-55 who are married or in a relationship, and that the stress may make it more difficult for younger adults to regain their physical and mental health after a heart attack.

Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, an international authority on breastfeeding and early childhood nutrition, joined other scholars in calling for greater enforcement of the unethical marketing of infant formula in a special three-paper Series published in The Lancet earlier this year.

When Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science developed a new digital contact tracing tool, Yale School of Public Health tested the innovation.

A research team co-led by professor Dr. Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH, has received $500,000 in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue to develop an innovative noninvasive test for malaria using lasers and ultrasound.

As the Earth’s climate warms, abnormal heat waves remain an increasingly dire health hazard. But not all neighborhoods are affected equally: redlining, housing discrimination, and inequitable public infrastructure have contributed to disparities in health outcomes from heat.

Researchers at Yale School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have teamed up to make a centralized digital database for results from clinical trials of pneumococcal vaccines.

When a patient asks, “Why me?” after learning they have cancer, their physician’s response likely includes a review of the patient’s risk factors.

Tuberculosis affects millions of people every year. Unfortunately, many people with TB are undiagnosed, as stigma, misinformation, and logistical resources often stand in the way of help.

Chang Su, PhD ’23 (biostatistics), and colleagues at Yale School of Public Health and Emory University have developed an innovative computational tool to characterize the functional organization of genes in cell types using single-cell RNA-sequencing data.