Whether developing a new test for malaria, exposing health risks associated with climate change, or highlighting the impact of stigma on LGBTQ+ population well-being, Yale School of Public Health faculty advanced science in a variety of impactful ways over the past year.
Annual Research Awards
YSPH Early Career Investigator Research Prize: Leying Guan
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
A conformal test of linear models via permutation-augmented regressions published in Annals of Statistics
YSPH Investigator Research Prize: Xi Chen
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Associate Professor at Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Early-Life Circumstances and Racial Disparities in Cognition Among Older Adults in the US published in JAMA Internal Med
YSPH Investigator Research Prize: Sunil Parikh
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Infectious Diseases
Noninvasive in vivo photoacoustic detection of malaria with Cytophone in Cameroon published in Nature Communications
YSPH Team Science Prize: Xiaomei Ma, Nicole Deziel, Rong Wang, Josh Warren, Kai Chen, Tormod Rogne
Xiaomei Ma | Interim Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Nicole Deziel | Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
Rong Wang | Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology
Josh Warren | Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Kai Chen | Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
Tormod Rogne | Assistant Professor Adjunct of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study published in Lancet Planetary Health
YSPH Impact Research Prize: Caroline Johnson, Abhishek Jain, Domenica Berardi, Lingeng Lu
Not pictured: Abhishek Jain
Caroline Johnson | Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
Abhishek Jain | Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Domenica Berardi | Postdoctoral Associate (Environmental Health Sciences)
Lingeng Lu | Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Charting the metabolic biogeography of the colorectum in cancer: challenging the right sided versus left sided classification published in Molecular Cancer
YSPH Impact Research Prize: John Pachankis
David R. Kessler, M.D. '55 Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences), Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry
Structural stigma and LGBTQ+ health: a narrative review of quantitative studies published in Lancet Public Health
Past Awards
2024 Awards
- YSPH Early Career Investigator Research Prize
Zeyan Liew: Association Between Estimated Geocoded Residential Maternal Exposure to Lithium in Drinking Water and Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Offspring in Denmark published in JAMA Pediatrics.
- YSPH Investigator Research Prize
Yize Zhao: Genetic Underpinnings of Brain Structural Connectome for Young Adults published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
- YSPH Team Science Prize
Robert Heimer and Lauretta Grau: Receipt of opioid use disorder treatments prior to fatal overdoses and comparison to no treatment in Connecticut, 2016–17 published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
- YSPH Team Science Prize
Caroline Johnson, Krystal Pollitt and Lingeng Lu: Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid and Perfluorooctanoic Acid Promote Migration of Three-Dimensional Colorectal Cancer Spheroids published in Environmental Science & Technology.
- YSPH Impact Research Prize
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla: Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world published in Lancet.
- YSPH Impact Research Prize
David Paltiel and Gregg Gonsalves: Increased HIV transmissions with reduced insurance coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: Potential consequences of Braidwood Management v. Becerra published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases
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.