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When ‘Just Asking Questions’ About Science Turns Into 300,000 Dead
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
Source: New York Times
13 Feb 2025
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New Program Helps Students Listen with Compassion
What began as a conversation about the need for more people to listen with compassion and empathy in a conflict-driven world is now a program for new students.
7 Jan 2025
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Congo’s mpox crisis
For the second time in two years, a long-overlooked virus poses a global threat. YSPH epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves and colleagues recently calculated that over a one-year period, vaccinating 80% of children under age 15 in rural areas of the DRC would decrease cases by 54% and deaths by 71%. But it would take a whopping 26.6 million doses.
Source: Science
9 Dec 2024
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Researchers Deploy Technology to Find High-Risk HIV Populations
A recent study by YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves and colleagues used a special program to show the potential of location technology to increase the uptake of HIV treatment in high-risk individuals.
Source: Medscape
29 Oct 2024
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Vaccinating children for mpox would significantly reduce deaths in the DRC
Vaccinating children under five-years-old in endemic mpox regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would significantly reduce the number of deaths in the country, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
16 Oct 2024
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YSPH researchers launch major initiative to improve HIV outbreak detection among people who use drugs
A YSPH-led research team is investigating innovative new ways to identify and mitigate outbreaks of HIV among people who use drugs.
17 Sep 2024
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U.S. repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say
The U.S. is making the same mistakes with the H5N1 bird flu virus as with COVID, even as the highly pathogenic avian influenza continues spreading on American farms and raising alarms that it could mutate to become a pandemic, YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves and colleagues argue in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Source: The Guardian
30 Aug 2024
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Anti-vaccine rhetoric has hit the campaign trail
Former President Donald Trump has promised that, if re-elected to the presidency, he would cut federal funding for any schools with a vaccine or mask mandate. His promises highlight the continued politicization of CDC-recommended public health best practices. Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves joins a discussion on anti-vaccine rhetoric during the current election.
Source: WNPR
28 Aug 2024
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W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency Over New Mpox Outbreak
The epidemic is concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the virus has now appeared in a dozen other African countries.
Source: New York Times
14 Aug 2024
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Déjà Vu All Over Again — Refusing to Learn the Lessons of Covid-19
With the prospect of an H5N1 pandemic a major source of concern, YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves joins several colleagues in urging public health professionals to speak out on the urgent need for better pandemic preparedness.
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
24 Jul 2024
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We’re Facing a Potential Bird Flu Catastrophe
H5N1 is spreading across the US, targeting some of our most vulnerable communities, and exposing our tattered public health system. We need bold action, and we need it now, says YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves and Dartmouth researcher Anne N. Sosin in this commentary in The Nation.
Source: The Nation
30 May 2024
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2024 Top Research Awards Announced
Yale School of Public Health Associate Dean of Research Melinda Irwin announces the recipients of this year’s top research awards.
23 May 2024
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Long-Acting Drugs May Revolutionize H.I.V. Prevention and Treatment
Instead of drugs that must be taken daily, scientists are closing in on longer-acting alternatives — perhaps even a future in which H.I.V. may require attention just twice a year, inconceivable in the darkest decades of the epidemic. Featuring Yale School of Public Health's Gregg Gonsalves.
Source: The New York Times
17 Apr 2024
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Mpox surge in Congo raises concerns world will ignore warnings again
A surge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised concerns of another global outbreak with more deaths than the one ignited last year, prompting scientists to worry the world will again fail to recognize warnings from Africa.
Source: The Washington Post
6 Dec 2023
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Alumni Day highlights data-driven leadership
More than 100 Yale School of Public Health alumni turned out for the first in-person Alumni Day in five years on Oct. 6, attending an event-filled day at the New Haven Lawn Club that included lively discussions about the importance of data-driven leadership in public health, a poster contest, and the distribution of the annual alumni awards.
7 Nov 2023
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From appointments to insurance, COVID-19 vaccine issues continue in CT
Yale School of Public Health Professor Gregg Gonsalves says that during the pandemic the American public health system and welfare system had been bolstered to the point where we had a semi-functional public health and social services apparatus. These programs have all been dismantled with the end of the public health emergency, returning us to the normal of "the unfulfilled promise of public health."
Source: CT Insider
5 Oct 2023
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Federal government to start providing free coronavirus tests once again
Starting Sept. 25, people can request four free tests per household through covidtests.gov. Officials say the tests are able to detect the latest variants and are intended to be used through the end of the year. Featuring YSPH's Greg Gonsalves.
Source: The Washington Post
20 Sep 2023
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Covid is here to stay. How will we know when it stops being special?
With some level of immunity nearly ubiquitous across the country, many people are wondering when — or if — we can stop treating the coronavirus differently from other common respiratory ailments. Experts say the answer will vary, depending on people’s individual tolerance for risk and the changing landscape of variants and boosters. Featuring YSPH's Gregg Gonsalves.
Source: The Washington Post
13 Sep 2023
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Hepatitis cases and heart valve infection deaths tied to early OxyContin marketing
In a new study, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health show that infectious disease rates in the United States climbed as a direct long-term result of the marketing of OxyContin.
19 Jul 2023
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Hepatitis Cases and Heart Valve Infection Deaths Tied to Early OxyContin Marketing
A new study shows that infectious disease rates in the United States climbed as a direct long-term result of the marketing of OxyContin.
Source: Yale School of Public Health
19 Jul 2023