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In the debut episode of the Beyond Blue podcast, Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan Ranney explains why it’s important to frame firearm injury as a public health problem.

When male mosquitoes are infected with a naturally occurring microbe called Wolbachia, the eggs laid by their female mates don’t hatch.

Researchers have developed and validated a new questionnaire, the Skin Checking and Avoidance Behaviors Scale, to measure the compulsive checking and avoidance behaviors that stem from health anxiety

Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD, has been appointed director of the Yale Department of Internal Medicine Physician Scientist Training Program.

Marney A. White, PhD, MS, professor of public health and psychiatry, has been honored by two organizations for her work in psychodermatology, where she explores connections between the mind and skin.

Dr. Alonzo Plough has spent his career bridging science, community, and change. As a Yale School of Public Health alum, he reflects on staying true to your values, translating science into real benefits for communities, and what’s possible for the field of public health going forward.

In a new impact report, Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy’s documents its work to reduce the time between top-flight research and policy impact.

Health scientists and clinical care providers have long recognized that health is shaped by far more than healthcare alone. Air and water pollution, transportation, housing, economic opportunity, and other environmental and social factors all influence health, yet efforts to address these issues often occur in isolation. Work led by Yale policy and health researchers, developed with significant contributions from Suzi Ruhl, JD, MPH, co-leader of the Yale Biological Embedding, Global Research & Intervention Network (BEGIN) at YIGH, has now helped shape Connecticut legislation that brings scientists, policymakers, and communities to the same table on these complex challenges.

The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) has selected Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee as the 2026 Hecht Global Health Policy Innovation and Systems Impact Faculty Network Award recipient. Her research will bring together the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and the Khushi Baby Association to test whether deep learning-based AI models for image-based anemia screening can work effectively in field settings, used by accredited social health activists in India for everything from consent and image capture to result interpretation, with algorithms refined in real time.