Annual Research Awards
Jeffrey Townsend
Elihu Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics. 2023 Research Award:
Reducing Disease Risk
News Summary: Yale Study Identifies Causes of Cancers
Nicole Deziel
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences). 2023 Research Award: Preventing Next Public Health Threat
Other YSPH co-authors: Joshua Warren, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Xiaomei Ma, Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); and Cassie Clark (first author, former PhD student now postdoc at YSPH)
News Summary: Proximity to Fracking Sites Associated with Risk of Childhood Cancer
Jacob Wallace
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy). 2023 Research Award: Achieving Health Equity
Other YSPH co-authors: Chima D. Ndumele, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
News Summary: Reducing Disparities Among Medicaid Enrollees: What Can States Do?
Kai Chen
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences). 2023 Research Award: Planetary Health
Other YSPH co-authors: Virginia Pitzer, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), and Dr. Robert Dubrow, Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
News summary: Drought Linked to Higher Diarrhea Risk in Children
Other YSPH co-authors: Daniel Carrión, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health), and Dr. Robert Dubrow, Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
News Summary: National Heat Vulnerability Index Reveals Neighborhoods at High Vulnerability to Heat
Virginia Pitzer
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases). 2023 Research Award: Data Science
Other YSPH co-authors: Joshua Warren, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Forrest W. Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, and Daniel Weinberger, Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
News summary: Delta Variant, Waning Immunity Reduced Pfizer Vaccine’s Effectiveness Against Household Transmission
Past Awards
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.
2020 Research Awards
- Early Career Investigator Award
- Nathan Grubaugh: "Travel surveillance and genomics uncover a Hidden Zika Outbreak during the waning epidemic" published in Cellpress.
- Science Prize
- Albert Ko: "Impact of preexisting dengue immunity on Zika virus emergence in a dengue endemic region" published in Science.
- Investigator Awards
Hongyu Zhao: "A statistical framework for cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association analysis" published in Nature Genetics.
Zack Cooper: "The price ain't right? Hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured" published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.