More about the YSPH Covid-19 Pandemic Response
March 11, 2025, marks five years since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. We asked Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, students, and alumni to reflect on the lessons they have learned since March 11, 2020, and how to apply those lessons if we are confronted with another health crisis. Their responses highlight the importance of community, collaboration, communication, and innovation.
- September 23, 2024Source: ContagionLive
In an exclusive email interview with Contagion, Alexandra Savinkina, MSPH, PhD student specializing in the epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses her research on COVID vaccinations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- September 23, 2024Source: TODAY
Within the next week, Americans will be able to order another round of free COVID test kits through the website COVIDTests.gov.
- September 18, 2024Source: TODAY
Albert Ko, MD, Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at Yale, explains how two different SARS-CoV-2 variants can recombine with each other, causing a new strain.
- September 10, 2024
New COVID-19 vaccines are now available at local pharmacies, health clinics, major retail outlets, and medical offices. Shots for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are also widely available, as is the latest updated flu vaccine. YSPH Associate Professor Jason Schwartz discusses this year's vaccines and why it is important to get vaccinated.
- July 12, 2024
A mobile laboratory-in-a-van that brings testing services to underserved Connecticut neighborhoods is enabling Yale Pathology of Yale School of Medicine to establish relationships and build trust with community organizations.
- July 11, 2024Source: Nature
YSPH microbiologist Anne Wyllie's creation of the novel diagnostic protocol SalivaDirect dramatically expanded testing access during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Wyllie and the SalivaDirect team are exploring the use of saliva testing for influenza A and B, and for respiratory syncytial virus.
- May 01, 2024Source: WebMD
A new COVID-19 variant nicknamed FLiRT is threatening to cause a summer wave of COVID infections.
- April 11, 2024
As a health care entrepreneur and leader in the White House’s development of some of the most important health care initiatives of the 21st century, Andy Slavitt helped implement the Affordable Care Act and advised the Biden administration on its COVID-19 response. In a recent visit to YSPH, Slavitt shared some of his key communications practices as part of the Leaders in Public Health speakers series.
- April 11, 2024
Dean Megan L. Ranney speaks with former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar II