Magazines: Yale Public Health and Focus Articles

This spring is an exciting time for the Yale School of Public Health community as we prepare to welcome Dr. Megan Ranney as the school’s Dean on July 1, 2023. Dr. Ranney is deeply committed to elevating and including the voices of those for whom we work through community driven collaborative approaches to public health challenges.

Responding to dementia symptoms can be stressful, especially for spousal partners. But care often is lacking for the caregivers themselves.

Should we care about ageist attitudes? Unless you have dreams of immortality, everyone¬ – barring disease, accidents, and natural disasters – ¬will eventually be old, and our attitudes (positive and negative) matter. “I feel qualified to write about ageism since I’m 94 and not ready to close shop,” says Ruth Taber, MPH ’54.

In the first study of its kind, Yale researchers found differences in mortality among subgroups of older Americans within a year of having major surgery.

Yale Professor Becca Levy, a leading expert on the psychology of aging, is changing the way society sees old people, and how old people see themselves. A professor of social and behavioral sciences at Yale School of Public Health and of psychology at Yale University, Levy reveals surprising insights about how the mind-body connection influences the aging process.

As a student of public health, José Aravena Castro (in photo at right) is interested in how cultural and societal influences affect our brains as we age. A doctoral student at YSPH, he is studying issues related to Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss among members of an indigenous community in Chile.

Phil Moriarty and Sam Waterston of the Yale Class of ’62, who continue to work into their 80s, joined Becca Levy for a discussion on “flunking retirement” during alumni weekend in 2022. Moriarty, CEO at Moriarty/ Fox, Inc., and Waterston, an Academy Award-nominated actor, continued the discussion with us during a Q&A, featured here.

The ALS Association has awarded Assistant Professor Chelsey R. Carter and Associate Professor Joan K. Monin $50,000 in funding to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

The number of people living with dementia is rapidly increasing and is projected to triple by 2050, rising particularly in low-income and middle-income countries, says Associate Professor Xi Chen.

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.