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Yale School of Public Health students got an inside look at how decisions are made at the top of the public health pyramid on September 30th, when Dr. Karen Hacker, MD, MPH, BA ’77, director of the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Promotion, visited the school as part of Dean Megan L. Ranney’s Leadership in Public Health speaker series.

A new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges Research and Action Institute, co-authored by Dr. Megan L. Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health, examines how alcohol, drug, and firearm deaths have lowered life expectancy in the United States and contributed to a widening gap in life expectancy between the U.S. and other high-income countries. Investing in targeted public health interventions would have an immediate impact on reducing these preventable deaths, the authors say.

YSPH Dean Megan L. Ranney joins The Other 80 podcast to discuss gun violence as a public health crisis.

The Connecticut Health Foundation has convened an advisory committee to help inform the creation of a blueprint for maternal health equity in Connecticut, focused on Black patients. The Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative and the Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) will help facilitate the work.

In the last two years, vaccine-derived polio has been spotted in the United States and Gaza. Now the original wild-type polio is spreading in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Dr. Howard Forman explains that politics are hampering efforts to control the outbreak.

Pollutants from fires can travel great distances and have the potential to affect human health thousands of kilometers away. In a new study, researchers from the Yale School of Public Health investigated whether long-term exposure to fine particles in wildfire smoke was associated with increases in causes of death.

The CT Board of Education’s recommendation of limited cell phone use in public schools has sparked conversations about how to best support student learning.

Within the next week, Americans will be able to order another round of free COVID test kits through the website COVIDTests.gov.