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Data Scientists Discuss Digital Health Equity at Yale Conference
Experts shared insights on the transformative role of data science in public health at a two-day conference hosted by Yale School of Public Health in March.
24 Mar 2025
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Ijeoma Opara Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding early-career scientists and engineers who are federally funded. Dr. Opara is among 400 scientists who received the prestigious PECASE award from former President Joseph Biden in January.
23 Jan 2025
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Transforming public health science into local and global practice
Implementation science has recently emerged as a novel interdisciplinary field for developing and applying methods and strategies to improve the delivery of proven health interventions in routine clinical and public health practice.
16 Jan 2025
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Evaluating the Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Mortality
In a new study, Yale School of Medicine researchers examined how the prevalence of neighborhood disadvantage differed according to individual-level characteristics and evaluated the association between neighborhood disadvantage and mortality among older people over 10 years.
12 Dec 2024
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YSPH community supports local agencies with gift basket raffle
The gift basket raffle held during the school's annual Winter Celebration is an innovative way to support local community agencies.
9 Dec 2024
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Health Equity Summit Celebrates Achievements, Plans Future Solutions
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, racial outcome disparities emerged. In the first year, for example, Black and Hispanic patients were far likelier to die than white patients were. Yet a bright spot occurred at Yale. Not only was the mortality rate throughout Yale New Haven Health in the pandemic’s first two years lower than the national average, but also no race-based survival differences occurred among discharged patients.
22 Oct 2024
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New Study Compares Approaches to Control High Blood Pressure
Erica Spatz, MD, MHS is focused on eliminating disparities in blood pressure control. She recently received a nearly $20 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a new study called Pressure Check. The study aims to improve health equity by comparing three intervention strategies to control blood pressure. Rafael Pѐrez-Escamilla, PhD, professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences), is the dual principal investigator.
15 Oct 2024
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Connecticut Health Foundation launches advisory committee for statewide blueprint on maternal health equity
The Connecticut Health Foundation has convened an advisory committee to help inform the creation of a blueprint for maternal health equity in Connecticut, focused on Black patients. The Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative and the Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) will help facilitate the work.
1 Oct 2024
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Zeyan Liew receives grants to study the role of PFAS in cerebral palsy
Studies have shown that environmental pollutants are disproportionately distributed in areas where lower socioeconomic and vulnerable communities reside.
24 Sep 2024
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New Yale grants support innovative Yale-HBCU research partnerships
Two Yale School of Public Health faculty members – Dr. Ijeoma Opara, PhD, associate professor of public health; and Dr. Trace Kershaw, PhD, department chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health – are partnering with faculty from two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as part of a new research grant program instituted in the spring by Yale University.
18 Sep 2024
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For some Black, Latino, and Asian people, summers are hotter
Black and Latino people, and some Asian populations, consistently experience hotter warm seasons than non-Hispanic white people living in the same county of the U.S., according to a new YSPH study. 
30 Jul 2024
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Mobile Lab Helps Yale Pathology Establish Relationships, Build Trust With Community
A mobile laboratory-in-a-van that brings testing services to underserved Connecticut neighborhoods is enabling Yale Pathology of Yale School of Medicine to establish relationships and build trust with community organizations.
12 Jul 2024
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Terika McCall recognized for inclusive digital health tools
McCall designs digital health tools that have the potential to reduce health inequities by facilitating connections to health and social services.
25 Jun 2024
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For YSPH graduate, community engagement as important as class work
Graduation is a time when most students are deciding where to go after receiving their diplomas. Sophie E. Edelstein, however, is staying right where she is – in New Haven, where she was born and raised.
6 May 2024
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Pandemic proved to be a revelatory time for PhD student
If you think writing a dissertation is hard, try doing it during a pandemic. Shannon Whittaker, who is graduating from the Yale School of Public Health this spring with a PhD in social and behavioral sciences and public health, started her dissertation while COVID-19 had shut down most of the world. She calls it the most revelatory point of her time at YSPH. It was as much a self-revelation as a scholarly one.
6 May 2024
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Data equity conference brings leaders together to reduce health disparities
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.
3 Apr 2024
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Collaborative, innovative, world-class curriculum attracts student to YSPH
This Student Spotlight focuses on Kamali Akii-bua Clora, MPH '24 (Health Care Management).
20 Mar 2024
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A call to action: YSPH co-hosts first climate symposium
The profound impact of climate change on community health was the topic of the 2024 Connecticut Symposium on Climate Change and Health at the Yale School of Public Health.
20 Mar 2024
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Visiting journalist highlights the power of storytelling in public health
Weaving together personal stories with powerful facts, journalist Linda Villarosa discussed the impact of racism in health care and strategies for the future at the February 12th Dean’s Lecture “Storytelling for Social Justice and Health”.
14 Mar 2024
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YSPH faculty co-launch research leadership program in India
Mayur M. Desai, YSPH professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases), and Erika Linnander, director of the Global Health Leadership Initiative at YSPH, teamed with two faculty members from the University of Arizona's Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and India's JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research and the Public Health Research Institute of India to create the Research Leadership Program. Its purpose is to build leadership and mentorship among public health scholars from India’s underrepresented groups.
12 Mar 2024