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Four YSPH students responded to an unconventional challenge from Assistant Professor Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD. Instead of a final paper, build something different — a public health communication project, delivered to a larger, general audience.

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“Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, new ways of working in public health are emerging,” writes Dr. Debra Houry.

Expected to wrap up later this year, the trial is “intended to probe a plausible hypothesis” rather than find treatment at this stage, says Yale University immunologist Akiko Iwasaki, who is helping run it. “That would require a much larger study.”

A new study from researchers, including Jacob Wallace at the Yale School of Public Health, found that private managed care in Medicaid reduced annual spending by 5.6% compared with traditional fee-for-service care. While managed care can lower costs, researchers say its effects on health care access, quality, and who benefits from the savings remain uncertain.

Hartford teens gave up a part of their summer to participate in a gun violence prevention program for several weeks. The program is a partnership between Hartford Communities That Care, Yale School of Public Health, and Project Unloaded, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that employs young people to prevent gun violence through education, storytelling, and community action.

In a new study, Yale researchers found that hot temperatures and extreme precipitation are probably increasing the prevalence of malaria in parts of Africa.

Repeated and cumulative exposure to wildfire smoke is linked to a higher risk of being hospitalized for cardiovascular disease in older adults in the U.S., a new Yale study finds.

YSPH graduate Emma Bebarta ’26 MPH receives an offer to spend a year abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.