Lessons Learned from Past Prize Winners

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.

Upkeep Care, an artificial intelligence platform the connects older adults and caregivers to resources, topped a record 36 teams to win the 2024 Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, presented by InnovateHealth Yale (IHY). The four-member team, including three Yale School of Public Health students, bested three other Yale student-led teams with their final pitch at Startup Yale, the university’s largest entrepreneurial event, April 5 at the Hotel Marcel in New Haven.

The program develops Yale students’ interest in innovation to solve global health challenges through collaboration, creative methods and business approaches.

This Student Spotlight focuses on Kailey Seiler, MPH '24 (Social and Behavioral Sciences)

The Role of Data in Public Health Equality and Innovation Conference, bringing together a global and diverse group of leaders from academia, government, health care, and private industry, takes place at Yale April 8-9.

Six student-led ventures have received this year’s Rita Wilson Grant Funds in Support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship from InnovateHealth Yale (IHY).