- June 25, 2024
Terika McCall recognized for inclusive digital health tools
- May 23, 2024Source: Yale Insights: Health & Veritas
Chima Ndumele: Reinventing Medicaid
- May 06, 2024
Pandemic proved to be a revelatory time for PhD student
- May 06, 2024
For YSPH graduate, community engagement as important as class work
Community Health, Health Equity and Social Justice
The Yale School of Public Health is committed to addressing health disparities as well as health conditions that result from structural inequality, racism and stigma. Our research includes:
- Understanding the underlying mechanisms and interplay between risk factors that drive health inequity
- Effects of racism and stigma on health
- Examining the intersection of race, gender, class, age, health and well-being, such as the role of affordable housing as a social determinant of health
- Ways that neighborhoods shape health through social networks and geographic settings
- Influence of social networks and financial capital on health
- Social and structural interventions to improve health inequities
- Developing evidence-based models to narrow health and health care inequalities, with a focus on racial and ethnic minority populations
- Effects of public policy on access to care
- Quality and efficiency in health care systems
- Disparities in cancer outcomes
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Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging
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Centers and other resources
- Cancer Action Prevention and Engagement (CAPE)CAPE offers support and resources for cancer-related inquiries, inviting those with experience or expertise as potential partners to join in aiding underserved groups in Connecticut.
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)CIRA provides HIV-related resources, skills, services, training, and professional networking opportunities to HIV researchers and practitioners who can contribute to advances in HIV prevention and treatment.
- Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE)CARE promotes the prevention of chronic diseases by focusing on social, environmental, and behavioral risk factors.
- InnovateHealth Yale (IHY)IHY supports the creation of innovative solutions to challenges in public health and education for underserved communities in the United States and low-resource countries.
- The Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Lab (SASH)SASH lab focuses on conducting and disseminating strengths-based youth substance use and HIV prevention research.
- Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC)The PRC works with community partners to develop and implement community-based approaches to prevent and control chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.