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An Associated Press review of a claim that Pfizer acknowledged in a statement that it conducted “gain of function” research as part of its development of a vaccine and a separate medical treatment for COVID-19 found the claim is false.
- February 02, 2023
Michael Cappello, MD, chair of the Department of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) at the Yale School of Public Health, will serve as the interim director of the Yale Institute for Global Health.
- February 01, 2023
Two members of the Yale Center for Research on Aging (Y-Age) are among three Yale School of Medicine faculty whose work is included on the Clinical Research Forum’s 2023 list of the Top 20 recent research achievements.
- February 01, 2023
Yale School of Public Health alumni Ahmad Saleh and Ehsan Abualanain (shown above), both MPH '22, and current student Madison Novosel, MPH '23, have created an NGO called MakeDeathsCount to provide verbal autopsy training in countries, such as Syria, where many deaths and their causes go unrecorded.
- January 27, 2023Source: STAT
When institutions in the United States and other high-income countries embark on collaborations to improve health or the delivery of health care in low-income countries, they do it with the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t good enough. Projects conducted by trainees at schools of medicine, public health, and other health disciplines in high-income countries can often make the problems they set out to address worse.
- January 25, 2023Source: The Washington Post
New CDC data shows updated boosters are cutting risk of getting sick from covid-19 by about half
- January 25, 2023Source: NPR
15 wishes for 2023: Trailblazers tell how they'd make life on Earth a bit better
- January 24, 2023Source: Nature
Genomic surveillance is crucial for tracking the next ‘variant of concern’, but many countries are winding back their monitoring.
- January 18, 2023
A team of Yale and Cameroonian researchers has created a checklist for global health scholars to ensure fairness during the entire research process, from study design and funding through data collection, writing, and publication.
- January 13, 2023Source: Associated Press
China on Saturday reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December, offering hard numbers for an unprecedented surge that was apparent in overcrowded hospitals and packed crematoriums, even as the government released little data about the status of the pandemic for weeks. Those numbers may still underestimate the toll, though the government said the “emergency peak” of its latest surge appears to have passed.