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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.

Yale School of Public Health research impacts communities around the globe by advancing science and delivering systems-level solutions for a healtheir world. In this research roundup, we highlight YSPH scientists' development of a powerful new technique for detecting genetic variants linked to diseases, a study linking racism-related stress and increased substance use, how white-tailed deer help spread pathogens, and a malaria clinicial trial.

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.

PhD student Christina Paraggio tells us about a field site in Guatemala

Savanna Randi, EMD PhD student, tells us about a long running study site in Ghana

This series explores the broader implications of recent USAID funding cuts. In this story, Dr. Brian Wahl discusses how losing access to DHS data—now being discontinued in many settings—impacts modeling efforts. The loss of this vital resource has significant consequences for tracking global health progress, conducting research, and guiding program planning.

Barred from Sudan during the ongoing civil war, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab try to monitor death and destruction from afar.

Today on Where We Live, we get an update on the ongoing humanitarian crisis happening in this region and hear from Ukrainian Americans in Connecticut.

This series spotlights the amazing postdoctoral associates working with faculty from the YSPH Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) department. We want to highlight the opportunity for other students outside our department to work with us. This month focuses on students who are conducting research on global health. Here, postdoctoral associate Shannon Duffy tells us about the program and some of her exciting research in a Q&A format.