- March 26, 2025Source: The New York Times
What Happens to Your Brain When You Retire?
- February 19, 2025Source: Psychology Today
Spirituality Can Quell Rising Anxiety and Mental Distress
- January 31, 2025
Yale, VA, UCSF Researchers Develop First Eating Disorder Screener for U.S. Veterans
- January 23, 2025
Ijeoma Opara Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Mental Health
Using the latest research methods and community interventions, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health seek to understand and improve mental health outcomes in a variety of contexts. These include:
- How substance use affects mental health
- Attitudes and stigma toward aging and its effects on mental health
- The effects of caregiving on the mental health of the caregiver and patient
- Interventions to improve mental health outcomes in the LGBTQ community
- The effect of stigma, discrimination and racism on mental health
- How use of emerging technologies improve mental health outcomes
- Interventions to improve mental health and reduce suicide in global settings
- How maternal depression affects birth outcomes and parenting
- Resilience of refugees and the role of violence and trauma in their lives
- Survivorship
- How one’s social networks and physical environment influence their mental health
- Health care use and policy influence on mental health
Recent Publications
Centers and other resources
- Empower Neighborhoods and Relationships to Improve Community Health (ENRICH)ENRICH explores the impact of people and environments on individuals and communities, and in collaboration with communities, develops programs to improve community health.
- 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.
- Yale LGBTQ Mental Health InitiativeThis initiative provides a home for scholars and scholarship devoted to understanding and improving the mental health of LGBTQ populations in the US and around the world.
- Family Accommodation Obsessive-Compulsive DisorderFAOCD refers to family members' or significant others’ participation in or facilitation of patients’ rituals and/or avoidance.
- The Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Lab (SASH)SASH lab focuses on conducting and disseminating strengths-based youth substance use and HIV prevention research.