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Mexico's taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages and junk food are expected to substantially reduce consumption and help address the nation's diabetes crisis. Yet YSPH Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla says that taxes alone are insufficient. Without public health education and without clever social marketing campaigns and robust marketing regulation of the food industry, he says, the tax alone is unlikely to achieve more profound decreases in consumption.
- January 13, 2025
This Spotlight on Teaching shines on Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences), and his focus on a “flipped” classroom model.
- December 09, 2024
The gift basket raffle held during the school's annual Winter Celebration is an innovative way to support local community agencies.
- November 21, 2024Source: Nature Biotechnology
Meet the biotech startups brewing milk in bioreactors to improve on baby formula. YSPH Professor Rafael Perez-Escamilla has concerns.
- August 01, 2024
In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month and World Breastfeeding Week, which begins today, Yale School of Public Health Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla discusses five key, science-based facts that formula milk companies may not want people to know.
- May 23, 2024
Yale School of Public Health Associate Dean of Research Melinda Irwin announces the recipients of this year’s top research awards.
- March 20, 2024
Sex-linked differences are a significant factor in women's heart disease.
- February 05, 2024Source: CT News Junkie
The Yale School of Public Health and Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center are teaming up with several other organizations to help pregnant Latina women in Hartford improve their health with a trial food-as-medicine program.
- January 22, 2024Source: Hartford Courant
An analysis of assessment data from the Connecticut Department of Education found that physical fitness has declined in public schools across the state, with low-income districts hit hardest. Yale School of Public Health Professors Rafael Pérez-Escamilla and Nicola Hawley provide insights.
- February 07, 2023
A Lancet Series published on Feb. 8, 2023, highlights the continuing struggle that women across the globe face to meet their breastfeeding goals. Yale School of Public Health Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, a leading authority on breastfeeding policy and early childhood nutrition, is co-author of all three Series articles and the lead author of the first paper featured in the Series.