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Faculty members from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM) recently joined an interdisciplinary group of students and researchers in Kuala Lumpur for a summer boot camp on implementation science.

Colleen Chan, a PhD student in Yale's Department of Statistics and Data Science, won the Florence Nightingale award, co-sponsored by the International Biometric Society (IBS) and the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) at the 31st International Biometric Conference (IBC 2022) held in Riga, Latvia. This award is given to "most outstanding eligible candidate who has demonstrated exceptional scholarship", where eligible candidates include students and early researchers within 5 years of their PhD.

The Yale Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) Director Donna Spiegelman, ScD, and her team welcome new primary faculty member Dr. Guangyu Tong.

The Yale Department of Psychiatry, Yale Global Mental Health Program (YGMHP), and Imo State University School of Public Health in Nigeria are collaborating to provide a novel model of training to primary care workers in Nigeria.

Dr. Donna Spiegelman, Director of Yale’s Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science, her recent Ph.D. student, Dr. En Cheng, and other colleagues from Yale University, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, Harvard University, and Weill Cornell investigated long-term survival after diagnosis from common cancers.

Yale School of Public Health and Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) faculty member Fan Li, PhD, has been invited to serve on the editorial board for the journal Implementation Science. Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health and is the recipient of a recent Patient-Centered Outcome Research Institute grant for his work on developing methods and software to plan pragmatic cluster randomized trials.

We as humans differ from one another in our backgrounds, genetics, and health conditions. For instance, most of us are aware that no two people are the same based on our genetic makeup and lived experiences. Yet clinical trials are often not designed to powerfully analyze how various individual differences like age, health history, and socioeconomic status impact the effect of specific interventions. Fan Li, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and faculty member at the Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) at the Yale School of Public Health, has recently received an award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop new methods for planning cluster randomized trials that will incorporate such factors into relevant research and interventions.

Depression and suicide ideation remain leading causes of death among women of reproductive age worldwide. Despite this growing issue, many countries do not have adequate resources to address and improve mental health. In Pakistan, where Dr. Ashley Hagaman collaborates with her research partners, peer mothers have connected with mothers in the community to provide them with treatment and care for depression.

Can removing out-of-pocket costs for screening save lives? Screening for cancer and other diseases can identify the disease in its earlier stages of development and has been found to be highly effective in preventing the onset of illness.