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McCall designs digital health tools that have the potential to reduce health inequities by facilitating connections to health and social services.

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) has announced the appointment of two new assistant professors, Lee Kennedy-Shaffer, PhD, and Qiao Liu, PhD, in the Department of Biostatistics.

Negative early life experiences, such as attending segregated schools, contribute significantly to cognitive decline and cognition disparities between older Black and white Americans, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

Yale School of Public Health researchers assessed how long international travelers should be quarantined to prevent COVID-19 infection rise, finding it differed quite a bit by country.

Yale School of Public Health Associate Dean of Research Melinda Irwin announces the recipients of this year’s top research awards.

In a new research letter in JAMA, Mona Sharifi, MD, MPH, and a team of researchers looked at the dispensing of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) medications to adolescents and young adults (AYAs), aged 12-17 years. GLP-1RA medications have been approved for use in adults with Type 2 diabetes and for adults with obesity for many years, but national attention increased around the FDA approval of semaglutide for weight loss in 2021 for adults and December 2022 for adolescents with obesity.

Three outstanding members of the Yale School of Public Health faculty are honored as part of the 2024 distinguished faculty awards.

Kei-Hoi Cheung, PhD, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to research environmental health data and drinking water contamination using AI methods.

This Alumni Spotlight focuses on Huangdi (Denise) Yi, PhD '20 (Biostatistics), who leads the statistical efforts in the post-market stage of oncology drugs for a pharmaceutical company.