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Rohan Khera, MD, assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine), weighs in on the importance of including Black women and other groups in clinical trials.

Resilient Cities Network and Yale University, through collaboration across the Yale Schools of Public Health, Environment, and Nursing, and with generous support from The Rockefeller Foundation, are embarking on an initiative to identify and promote cutting-edge solutions that are helping cities address climate-related health challenges, preventing millions of deaths and direct health costs associated with climate change.

The recent deaths of several high-profile people in their 90's, including Rosalynn Carter and Charlie Munger, raises new discussions about what it may take to live longer. One suggestion is based on YSPH Professor Becca Levy's research into the impact positive aging beliefs have on health and longevity.

A special advisory committee earlier this year laid out several key strategies for curtailing opioid overdoses in Connecticut. It argued that increasing the accessibility and use of methadone and buprenorphine would be the most effective approach to stemming the mounting death toll. YSPH Professor Robert Heimer helped produce the report.

Jaimie Meyer, MD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases), discusses common HIV stigmas.

A potential merger between two of the country's largest health insurers would create yet another massive health care company in an industry increasingly dominated by titans. YSPH Associate Professor Zach Cooper provides insights.

The Yale School of Public Health had a strong showing at the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) annual meeting and expo this year.

Although he shared in the excitement of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, Executive MPH student Nathan Carroll does not consider himself to be a Swiftie. Still, he searched for an explanation for the post-concert amnesia some of the pop star's fans were reporting on social media.

We are amid the “triple-demic” of respiratory illnesses season that includes a significant increase in U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations alongside annual seasonal surges in respiratory viruses like influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). YSPH Professor Sten Vermund offers timely guidance on how people can best protect themselves in this opinion piece.