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As the world prepares for the start of the Olympic Games in Paris later this month, it is still unclear whether the city’s iconic Seine River will be clean enough for competitive swimming events. In a new video, Yale’s Jordan Peccia and Vasilis Vasiliou discuss the perennial challenge of pollution that caused officials to ban swimming in the river more than a century ago.
- July 10, 2024
This Student Spotlight focuses on Aline Maybank, MPH '25 (Environmental Health Sciences, Climate Change and Health).
- July 03, 2024
Yale School of Public Health researchers evaluate the association between exposure to hot temperatures during pregnancy and the risk of cancer in children.
- July 02, 2024
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), one of the leading cardiovascular journals worldwide, recently named several Yale faculty members to its editorial board.
- June 13, 2024Source: The Guardian
Pennsylvania families worry about rising cases of rare cancer with fracking well pads near their homes and stalled House bills. YSPH Associate Professor Nicole Deziel shares her insights.
- June 04, 2024Source: Chemical & Engineering News
Reusing the lithium found in fracking wastewater as a component of longer-lasting batteries sounds like a worthy goal. However, it is important to ensure that the extraction process is done in a way that minimizes impact on the environment and public health, YSPH Associate Professor Nicole Deziel says in this news report.
- June 03, 2024Source: Scientific American
Regulating chemicals one by one has allowed the tobacco industry to skirt menthol bans by creating new additives with similar effects but unclear safety profiles, say a team of Yale scientists in this Scientific American commentary.
- May 28, 2024
Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou on Yale Cancer Answers.
- May 23, 2024
Yale School of Public Health Associate Dean of Research Melinda Irwin announces the recipients of this year’s top research awards.
- May 16, 2024
As the world experiences one climate change-related public health disaster after another, the declaration by a Lancet Commission of academics and editors of The Lancet medical journal in 2009 that climate change is “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” is becoming more real.