- November 30, 2025Source: The New York Times
YSPH Professor Becca Levy's research offers insights as America faces record aging surge
- October 21, 2025
Lone star ticks, nitrogen dioxide pollution, and a dementia care study highlight this month's research roundup
- May 01, 2025Source: AARP
Helping to Dispel Myths About Aging
- April 17, 2025
Lower Blood Pressure May Offer Benefits Even for the Very Elderly
Aging
Yale School of Public Health faculty are engaged in interdisciplinary approaches to promote healthier aging. Our research includes:
- Influence of social psychological factors, including age stereotypes and ageism, on health outcomes
- Improving emotional health of older adults and reducing stress for the caregivers
- Identifying how home environments and finances affect the health of older adults
- Prevention of chronic diseases such as stroke and cardiovascular diseases
- Cognitive health (Alzheimer's disease and dementia)
- Improving HIV/AIDS outcomes for aging populations
- Improving health care access for older people
- Techniques for reducing the risk of falls and minimizing physical disability among older persons
- Access to care, insurance markets and public policy
- Quality of preventive, acute, long-term and end-of-life health care
- Novel integrative analysis using imaging and genetics to determine risk for Alzheimer's disease and its progression
Methodologies include:
- Etiology and treatment of disease
- Disease surveillance
- Genetics, pathology, epidemiology and neuroimaging
- Methods and qualitative and quantitative analyses for clinical trials
- Interventions, longitudinal studies and community-based field studies
Learn more about this work in the Departments of Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Centers and other resources
- Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS)CMIPS develops and disseminates innovative methodologic approaches to address implementation gaps and improve public health worldwide.
- Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research (CNE2)CNE2 is comprised of researchers across Yale schools who have common and complementary research and methodological interests in clinical neurological research.
- Social Gerontology and Health LabThe lab is researching how partner disability and suffering affect older adult caregivers' health and seeks ways to minimize the negative consequences of caregiving.
- Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC)The PRC works with community partners to develop and implement community-based approaches to prevent and control chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
- Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH)YIGH serves as the focal point for research, education, and engagement with global partners to improve the health of individuals and populations worldwide.