Annual Research Awards
YSPH Early Career Investigator Research Prize: Zeyan Liew
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Association Between Estimated Geocoded Residential Maternal Exposure to Lithium in Drinking Water and Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Offspring in Denmark. JAMA Pediatrics.
Co-Authors:Liew, Z., Meng, Q., Yan, Q., Schullehner, J., Hansen, B., Kristiansen, S. M., Voutchkova, D. D., Olsen, J., Ersbøll, A. K., Ketzel, M., Raaschou-Nielsen, O., & Ritz, B. R. (2023).
YSPH Investigator Research Prize: Yize Zhao
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Genetic Underpinnings of Brain Structural Connectome for Young Adults. Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Co-authors: Yize Zhao, Changgee Chang, Jingwen Zhang & Zhengwu Zhang.
YSPH Team Science Prize: Robert Heimer and Lauretta Grau
Robert Heimer is Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pharmacology; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Lauretta Grau is Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Receipt of opioid use disorder treatments prior to fatal overdoses and comparison to no treatment in Connecticut, 2016–17. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Co-authors: Heimer R, Black AC, Lin H, Grau LE, Fiellin DA, Howell BA, Hawk K, D’Onofrio G, Becker WC.
YSPH Team Science Prize: Caroline Johnson, Krystal Pollitt and Lingeng Lu
Caroline Johnson is Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
Krystal Pollitt is Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Lingeng Lu is Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid and Perfluorooctanoic Acid Promote Migration of Three-Dimensional Colorectal Cancer Spheroids. Environmental Science & Technology.
Co-authors: Zheng, J., Sun, B., Berardi, D., Lu, L., Yan, H., Zheng, S., Aladelokun, O., Xie, Y., Cai, Y., Godri Pollitt, K. J., Khan, S. A., & Johnson, C. H. (2023).
YSPH Impact Research Prize: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences); Director, Office of Public Health Practice; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, YSPH Global Health Concentration; Director, Maternal and Child Health Promotion (MCHP) Program
Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world. Lancet.
Co-authors: Cecília Tomori, Sonia Hernández-Cordero, Phillip Baker, Aluisio J D Barros, France Bégin, Donna J Chapman, Laurence M Grummer-Strawn, David McCoy, Purnima Menon, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro Neves, Ellen Piwoz, Nigel Rollins, Cesar G Victora, Linda Richter
YSPH Impact Research Prize: David Paltiel and Gregg Gonsalves
David Paltiel is Professor of Public Health (Health Policy), Professor of Management, and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Gregg Gonsalves is Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Affiliated Faculty, Program in Addiction Medicine; Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Increased HIV transmissions with reduced insurance coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: Potential consequences of Braidwood Management v. Becerra. Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Co-authors: Ahmed AR, Jin EY, McNamara M, Freedberg KA, Neilan AM
Past Awards
2023 Research Awards
- Achieving Health Equity
Jacob Wallace: "Disparities in Health Care Spending and Utilization Among Black and White Medicaid Enrollees" published in JAMA Health Forum - JAMA Network.
YSPH co-authors: Chima D. Ndumele
- Data Science
Virginia Pitzer: "Vaccination with BNT162b2 reduces transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to household contacts in Israel" published in Science.
YSPH co-authors: Joshua Warren, Forrest W. Crawford, Daniel Weinberger
- Planetary Health
Kai Chen: "Associations between long-term drought and diarrhea among children under five in low- and middle-income countries" published in Nature Communications
YSPH co-authors: Virginia Pitzer, Dr. Robert Dubrow
Kai Chen: "Residential and Race/Ethnicity Disparities in Heat Vulnerability in the United States" published in GeoHealth
YSPH co-authors: Daniel Carrión, Dr. Robert Dubrow
- Preventing Next Public Health Threat
Nicole Deziel: "Unconventional Oil and Gas Development Exposure and Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Case–Control Study in Pennsylvania, 2009–2017" published in Environmental Health Perspectives | Vol. 130, No. 8 (nih.gov)
YSPH co-authors: Joshua Warren, Xiaomei Ma, Cassie Clark
- Reducing Disease Risk
Jeffrey Townsend: "Reducing Disease Risk Attribution of Cancer Origins to Endogenous, Exogenous, and Preventable Mutational Processes" published in Molecular Biology and Evolution - Oxford Academic (oup.com)
2022 Research Awards
- Team Science Award
Amy Bei, Sunil Parikh, Josh Warren, and Daniel Weinberger: “Mapping partner drug resistance to guide anti-malarial combination therapy policies in sub-saharan Africa” published by PNAS.
Luke Davis, Lauretta Grau, Linda Niccolai, Donna Spiegelman, and Xin Zhou: “Lessons learned from covid-19 contact tracing during a public health emergency: prospective implementation study” published in Frontiers in Public Health.
- COVID-19 Award
Albert Ko, Nathan Grubaugh, Saad Omer and Chantal Vogels: “Impact of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants on mRNA vaccine-induced immunity” published in Nature.
A. David Paltiel and Jason Schwartz: "Assessing COVID-19 prevention strategies to permit the safe opening of residential colleges in Fall 2021” published in the in Annals of Internal Medicine.
- Early Career Investigative Award
Kai Chen: “Role of Meteorological factors in the transmission of SARS-COV-2 in the United States” published in Nature Communications.
- Health Equity Research Award
Terika McCall: “Development of a mobile app to support self-management of anxiety and depression in African American women: usability study” published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (ranked as the top health informatics journal.)
Yusuf Ransome: “Neighborhood social cohesion and inequalities in covid-19 diagnosis rates by area-level black/African American racial composition” published in the Journal of Urban Health.
- Investigator Award
Michaela Dinan: “Analysis of sociodemographic, clinical and genomic factors associated with breast cancer mortality in the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, End-Results and Medicare database” published in JAMA Network
Becca Levy: “Impact of Media-based negative and positive age stereotypes on older individuals mental health" published in Journal of Gerontology.
Fan Li: “Sample size considerations for stepped wedge designs with subclusters” published in Biometrics.
- Research Awards to PhD Candidates
Hanna Ehrlich (EMD): “Mapping partner drug resistance to guide anti-malarial combination therapy policies in sub-saharan Africa,” published in PNAS.
Tyler Shelby (EMD): “Lessons learned from covid-19 contact tracing during a public health emergency: prospective implementation study,” published in Frontiers in Public Health.
2021 Research Awards
- Early Career Investigator Awards
Abby Friedman: “Smoking to cope: Addictive behavior as a response to mental distress” published in Journal of Health Economics.
Krystal Pollitt: “The Fresh Air Wristband: A Wearable Air Pollutant Sampler” published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.
- Covid Research Award
- Anne Wyllie: “Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens for Detection of SARS-CoV-2” published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
- Team Science Award
Jacob Wallace, Chima Ndumele, and Anthony Lollo: “Comparison of Office-Based Physician Participation in Medicaid Managed Care and Health Insurance Exchange Plans in the Same US Geographic Markets” published in JAMA Network Open.
- Investigator Award
Dan Weinberger: “Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020”, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.