Lessons Learned from Past Prize Winners

On November 15th, participants in the Yale Sustainable Health Initiative Venture Development Program (VDP) pitched ideas for innovative global health ventures as part of the Kalyanpur-Maheshwari Grant for Global Health Innovation Pitch Competition. The winning group, Respond Crisis Translation, was selected by a panel of judges based on innovativeness, quality of their pitch, ongoing engagement with the VDP, and demonstration of impact. Respond received t $5,000 to support their ongoing work.

After seven and half years of dedicated service to the Yale School of Public Health, Dr. Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD, will be joining the University of South Florida as dean of the USF Health College of Public Health effective January 1, 2025. The relocation also allows Dr. Vermund to be on-site as the newly elected president of the Global Virus Network, which recently moved its international headquarters to USF.

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.

A new report from the Sports Equity Lab at Yale suggests that a commitment to athlete-centered sports governance among major sports organizations is essential to protecting athletes from the harmful interactions that can arise in sports settings.

Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, MPH ’06, lecturer and senior fellow in public health (health policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, traveled to New Orleans to advocate for diverse clinical trials at the Global Black Economic Forum.

The Sports Equity™ Lab (SEL), with the Global Health Justice Partnership of Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health, the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, and Sports Law Solutions, published a report on June 20 analyzing the issue of interpersonal violence in international sport.

The 2024 Yale Innovation Summit launched Wednesday at the Yale School of Management. More than 2,500 people are expected to attend the two-day event, including featured speakers and presenters, such as Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation.

Yale School of Public Health Associate Dean of Research Melinda Irwin announces the recipients of this year’s top research awards.

Kaakpema Yelpaala (KP) is the new faculty director of InnovateHealth Yale and a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. In this episode of Impact & Innovation, KP reflects on his roller-coaster journey which navigated through the non-profit and for-profit worlds in Africa, comparing these two worlds and digital health start-ups in Africa versus the U.S.