- September 12, 2023Source: Yale Daily News
Yale researchers identify racial disparities in clean air access
- September 12, 2023Source: Connecticut Public Radio
US environmental laws are cleaning up air. But benefits vary across racial groups, study finds
- September 07, 2023Source: NBC Connecticut
New Haven neighborhood has the most people vulnerable to extreme heat
- September 07, 2023Source: American Journal of Public Health
Environmental Injustice and Cumulative Environmental Burdens in Neighborhoods Near Oil and Gas Development: Los Angeles County, California, and Beyond
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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Health Affairs
Chilling Effects: US Immigration Enforcement And Health Care Seeking Among Hispanic Adults -
JAMA Health Forum
Evaluation of the Association Between Medicare Eligibility and Excess Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US - Health Services Research
1% Steps for Health Care Reform: Implications for health care policy and for researchers
for Faculty working in this area.