- March 01, 2023
Pasteur Network director speaks to global health equity in Dean’s Lecture
- February 21, 2023Source: Yale Daily News
“She is the best of us:” Ijeoma Opara and the power of health advocacy
- February 07, 2023Source: LGBTQ Nation
Queer people face discrimination in health care. Here are the people changing that.
- February 02, 2023Source: The New York Times
Someone Called the Police on a Girl Catching Lanternflies. Then Yale Honored Her.
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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Recent Publications
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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.