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I was drawn in by the idea of doing surveillance work. My interest in public health and in epi is to better understand how different diseases impact people differently, and seeing how the different projects at the EIP work at some capacity to observe and record this, I felt like this was a place I wanted to work at.

I was intrigued by the opportunity to do some applied epidemiology surveillance work as a public health student. I wanted to apply what I had learned in the classroom to the real-life public health field. I am also interested in food related public health topics, so FoodCORE was the perfect place for me.

Genesis Rosario’s internship with the Middletown Health Department was made possible by a Connecticut Department of Health program administered by Yale School of Public Health. The CT Public Health Fellowship Program works to cultivate placement opportunities and support students through their internships.

The increasing use of mixed methods research in public health and medicine presents new opportunities for investigators to obtain a more inclusive and holistic understanding of the complex factors underlying today’s pressing health challenges. Yale School of Public Health Research Scientist Sinem ToramanTurk discusses the importance of cultural humility in applying the methodology.

Dr. Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, explains how a QR code can help people with opioid use disorder in an interview with News 8 at Noon.

Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, MPH ’06, lecturer and senior fellow in public health (health policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, traveled to New Orleans to advocate for diverse clinical trials at the Global Black Economic Forum.

Dr. Melinda Irwin, deputy director of Yale Cancer Center and the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and associate dean of research at the Yale School of Public Health, who was also not involved in the study, told Medical News Today that the study’s results were “practice-changing,” notably because of how easy it can be to implement physical activity.

The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) has selected Nicola Hawley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, to receive the 2024 Hecht Global Health Faculty Network Award. Her project, affiliated with the Yale Network for Global NCDs (NGN), will focus on adapting and pilot testing an intervention designed to promote mental health among adolescents in American Samoa.

New research led by three Yale School of Medicine scientists aims to achieve better understanding of the molecular effects of alcohol use disorder (AUD) on certain regions of the brain.