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Formerly called the Conclave Awards, the 2025 Spring Yale Cancer Center awards honored research, clinical expertise, and support staff at the Hotel Marcel, New Haven on April 1, 2025.

As the world’s population rapidly ages, a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds that people living with dementia are struggling at an alarming rate.

Experts shared insights on the transformative role of data science in public health at a two-day conference hosted by Yale School of Public Health in March.

The FDA's product and food safety labs provide a critical public service. “Even hours can matter in an outbreak,” said Susan Mayne, an adjunct professor at Yale School of Public Health and a former F.D.A. food official.

“In health care, we’ve found that bigger is often not better. We have your health insurer, is also your doctor’s office, is also your pharmacy. Businesses are not being run with patients front and center,” said Cary Gross, MD, Yale professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and public health.

March 11, 2025, marks five years since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. We asked Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, students, and alumni to reflect on the lessons they have learned since March 11, 2020, and how to apply those lessons if we are confronted with another health crisis. Their responses highlight the importance of community, collaboration, communication, and innovation.

As private companies and academic institutions collaborate with Indigenous communities, they must commit to true partnerships that embody respect, equity and shared benefit, Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Nicola Hawley and Oceania University of Medicine Professor Satupaitea Viali say in this Nature Genetics commentary.

This series explores the broader implications of recently proposed changes in US policy and funding for science and public health in the US and around the globe. In this story, Dr. Jeremy Schwartz discusses how cuts to USAID funding for HIV programs in Uganda could undermine efforts to integrate mental health care into HIV treatment. This threatens the stability of essential health services for persons living with HIV and several linked health-system strengthening efforts related to non-communicable diseases.

Yale's Erica Spatz, MD, MHS, associate professor of cardiology and of epidemiology, discusses the effects of love on heart health.