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Weaving together personal stories with powerful facts, journalist Linda Villarosa discussed the impact of racism in health care and strategies for the future at the February 12th Dean’s Lecture “Storytelling for Social Justice and Health”.
- March 13, 2024
This Alumni Spotlight shines on Barbra G. Rabson, MPH '83 (Health Services Administration/Epidemiology), the president and CEO of Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, where she has worked since 1998.
- March 11, 2024Source: Yale Medicine
The FDA’s approval of Wegovy could help millions of Americans with both obesity and cardiovascular disease lower their risk of having a major cardiac event.
- March 11, 2024
Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.
- March 11, 2024
The promise of a public health model for reducing firearm injury and death was the topic of two recent events at which Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, was a guest speaker.
- March 08, 2024
On March 1, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a major change to its isolation guidelines for respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. Some experts worry that the shortened isolation period risks increasing transmission in some populations. YSPH Associate Professor Jason L. Schwartz discusses the new guidelines in this installment of 3 Essential Questions.
- March 08, 2024Source: CNN
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Yale School of Medicine, professor of public health (health policy), Yale School of Public Health, discusses additional health benefits of the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
- March 06, 2024Source: Yale News
Dr. Megan L. Ranney, MD, dean of the Yale School of Public Health, was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree during a ceremony at Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium on March 4. Ranney was one of more than 90 members of the university community to receive privatim degrees.
- March 06, 2024Source: NPR
A small group of academics have toiled to document how gun violence courses through American communities with vast and tragic outcomes. Their research provides some light as officials and communities develop policies mostly in the dark.
- February 29, 2024
Yale School of Public Health alumna Pamela Sutton-Wallace, MPH ‘97, has been promoted to president of Yale New Haven Health, the health system announced this week.