Latest News from Social and Behavioral Sciences
Getting timely and recurrent data on the state of equity and inclusion in medical schools has been challenging. A new tool could change that.
- February 20, 2024
For the past five years, Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Joan K. Monin has worked with LiveWell’s Empowering Partnerships Network (EPN) to bring YSPH students and postdocs together with people living with dementia to better understand their needs and advance research.
- February 19, 2024Source: The New York Times
Miami University began Opening Minds Through Art, a program designed to foster intergenerational understanding, in 2007 and introduced an online version in 2022. Featuring YSM's Dr. Becca Levy.
- February 19, 2024Source: MedPage Today
YSPH Associate Professor Ijeoma Opara joins MedPage Today's Jeremy Faust for a discussion about the aftereffects of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions, as well as the importance of diversity in medicine and research.
- February 17, 2024Source: The New York Times
The way we look at our own aging predicts what our future holds, as Becca Levy, a professor of public health at Yale, writes in her recent book, “Breaking the Age Code.”
- February 16, 2024Source: The Wall Street Journal
Some greeting card makers want to banish ‘ageist’ messages—but humor defenders say teasing adds to the charm. A study by YSPH Professor Becca Levy found that “older individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging, measured up to 23 years earlier, lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self-perceptions of aging.”
- February 15, 2024Source: Next Avenue
How internalizing outside ageism messages can be bad for your health and longevity. YSPH Professor Becca Levy is featured.
- February 08, 2024Source: The St. Louis American
YSPH Assistant Professor Chelsey Carter is co-principal investigator of the Black Genome Project, which seeks to better understand how genetic research is impacting Black communities in St. Louis and how Black communities value their genomes and genetic data.
- February 06, 2024
A new study by VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale School of Medicine researchers assesses how the most up-to-date genetic and psychosocial predictors of opioid use disorder compare and combine when predicting the risk of becoming dependent on opioids.
- February 05, 2024Source: CT News Junkie
The Yale School of Public Health and Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center are teaming up with several other organizations to help pregnant Latina women in Hartford improve their health with a trial food-as-medicine program.