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Preprint server medRxiv played an essential role during the pandemic. Its founders are part of a new effort to guarantee the server’s long-term stability.

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.

Doctors and scientists are watching the continued rise of bird flu in the United States closely. YSPH Dean Megan L. Ranney, an emergency physician, comments.

In this JAMA commentary, Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, FACEP, urges researchers in the field of firearm injury prevention to maintain "a laser focus on rigorously describing and then ameliorating not just the most obvious parts of our country’s firearm injury epidemic but also root causes that drive all of it."

YSPH Associate Professor Jason Schwartz stresses the important role of the national vaccine advisory committee in this Science news article.

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale neonatologist Sarah Taylor to discuss our growing understanding of breastfeeding, including the active role that infants play in shaping the composition of breast milk. Harlan discusses the rapid growth of Hims & Hers Health, which provides treatment and medication over the internet; Howie reports on the promising initial results from a pilot program in North Carolina that seeks to reduce healthcare costs by providing support in non-medical areas like food security and housing. 

YSPH Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, comments on the importance of vaccines to prevent measles.

The first Pennsylvania measles case of 2025 has been confirmed. Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, joined CNN on March 3 to discuss this case and the growing measles outbreak in Texas.

Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in partnership with Schmidt Sciences. The program will confer 24 awards totaling $640,000. These awards will go to individuals for science communication or journalism in 2024, with nine awards for research scientists, nine awards for science journalists, and six awards for science communicators.