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A new Yale study shows that nasal boosters can create strong local immune protection in the lungs and airways for respiratory diseases like COVID-19.

As we honor the Class of 2025, it is our great privilege to acknowledge the outstanding performance of a special group of students whose leadership, innovation, scholarship, and research excellence deserve recognition. We introduce to you the recipients of the Class of 2025 Student Awards.

Lucia Shen, MPH ’25, a Horstmann Scholar in the U.S. Health Justice Concentration and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will deliver the student address at the 2025 Yale School of Public Health Commencement.

At the Yale School of Public Health, our faculty and teaching fellows are committed to providing students with the highest quality training in the science and art of public health. Each year, members of the graduating class are asked to select educators who they feel stand out amongst their peers and best exemplify this most important mission. Congratulations to this year's winners of the outstanding teaching awards.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved three new “natural” food colorings to be used in foods and drinks like candies, smoothies, potato chips, and breakfast cereals. Dr. Susan Mayne, an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and former director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, says just because a product is natural doesn't mean it is safer.

Dr. Hotez is renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to vaccine development.