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Dr. Fan Li, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and a leading expert in causal inference and clinical trial methodology, was awarded a $2.6 million grant to develop innovative methods to strengthen the design and analysis of complex clinical trials.

At the 6th International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health, YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou updated the audience on recent research on olive oil’s health benefits.

Yale School of Public Health alum Jackson Higginbottom now works full-time at YSPH — while also running a free medical clinic in his home state of Oklahoma.

On Thursday, September 19, 2025, Yale University welcomed colleagues from academia and industry for the annual Yale–Boehringer Ingelheim Biomedical Data Science Fellowship (BMDS) Colloquium and Joint Steering Committee meeting. Hosted in New Haven, the gathering brought together faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and leaders from Yale and Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) to celebrate progress, showcase research, and chart the fellowship’s future.

Worried your olive oil isn’t real? A new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds the top brands on U.S. shelves are pure—so you can enjoy the health benefits without second-guessing your bottle.

An intensive two-day Yale Cancer Research symposium, dedicated to advancing cancer science through innovation and strengthening partnerships between Yale University and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), brought together researchers from multiple disciplines this week.

The Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program will foster a community of Ph.D. students working in interdisciplinary data science fields. Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, senior associate dean for data science at the Yale School of Public Health, is one of the leaders of the new program.

Lee Kennedy-Shaffer argues that we become better scientists once we consider how the collection and analysis of data is a process forged in social context.

To better understand how the contribution of chronic conditions to mortality varies by race and ethnicity, a team of researchers led by Yale School of Medicine’s Heather Allore, PhD, with collaborators from Oregon Health and Science University/Portland State University and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, conducted a large-scale study.