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Polio returns to Gaza: Where else has the virus re-emerged?
Polio has made a comeback in the Gaza Strip after 25 years, forcing the United Nations and local health authorities to launch a vaccination campaign. YSPH Professor Howard Forman explains how the current outbreak could be driven by vaccine-derived cases.
Source: Al Jazeera
2 Sep 2024
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The science behind the latest mpox global health emergency
On August 14, the World Health Organization declared a growing outbreak of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries a global health emergency of international concern. Yale School of Public Health epidemiologist Chantal Vogels, PhD, an expert on mpox, explains some of the science behind the latest outbreak and why it appears to be more deadly than a similar outbreak two years ago.
16 Aug 2024
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Advocates Renew Call For Refugee Rights
Yale School of Public Health student Nour Al Zouabi, MPH '25, fled Syria with her mother in 2012. Now relocated to New Haven, Al Zouabi and other local refugees are advocating for an expansion of the U.S. Refugee Admission Program and the creation of more public policies that benefit refugees and asylum seekers from across the globe. “These bills are a lifeline for those who have already endured so much," Al Zouabi said.
Source: Arts Council Greater New Haven
16 Aug 2024
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New initiative explores innovative financing solutions for improving ecosystems and public health in Africa
A groundbreaking new pan-African initiative supported in part by a Yale Planetary Solutions grant will explore innovative financing solutions for the co-management of ecosystems and public health in Africa.
14 Aug 2024
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More Americans are at risk for dengue amid a record-breaking surge of cases
Many people in the continental United States don’t hear much about dengue. But that is likely to change in the face of a record-breaking surge of cases – partly fueled by a warmer and wetter year across the world.
Source: Yale Climate Connections
7 Aug 2024
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Sudan's famine-stricken Zamzam camp hit by devastating floods
A famine-stricken camp in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region is facing a "significant" new influx of displaced people while floods threaten to contaminate water and sanitation facilities, according to satellite imagery. “For humanitarians, our worst-case scenario is happening on the ground right now,” said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.
Source: Reuters
2 Aug 2024
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Déjà Vu All Over Again — Refusing to Learn the Lessons of Covid-19
With the prospect of an H5N1 pandemic a major source of concern, YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves joins several colleagues in urging public health professionals to speak out on the urgent need for better pandemic preparedness.
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
24 Jul 2024
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YSPH Senior Fellow Kaakpema Yelpaala urges greater diversity in clinical trials
Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, MPH ’06, lecturer and senior fellow in public health (health policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, traveled to New Orleans to advocate for diverse clinical trials at the Global Black Economic Forum.
19 Jul 2024
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Dengue reaches historic levels in the Americas and closer to home
Mosquitoes are infecting people across the Americas with dengue at historic levels and U.S. travelers are bringing the potentially life-threatening virus home with them. YSPH infectious disease specialist Dr. Albert Ko is also concerned about climate change increasing the spread of the virus.
Source: USA Today
18 Jul 2024
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What’s happening in Sudan’s civil war? | Start Here
In this Al Jazeera video report, Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, discusses the growing humanitarian crisis in Sudan as the result of an ongoing civil war.
Source: Al Jazeera
3 Jul 2024
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Travelers beware: It’s a big year for dengue
Weather, waning immunity, and human behavior are contributing to an explosive outbreak of dengue that has evolved in the last year, says Dr. Albert Ko, a professor of epidemiology at YSPH who has worked with dengue patients in Brazil for 30 years.
Source: NPR
29 Jun 2024
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Analysts: Presence of foreign actors complicates Sudan war situation
As Sudan’s humanitarian crisis grows more dire, concerns are growing that foreign actors with interests in Sudan are complicating the situation and making it harder to end a 14-month war that has driven millions from their homes and has put parts of the country on the brink of famine.
Source: Voice of America
20 Jun 2024
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UN Security Council calls for end to siege of al-Fasher in Sudan
A year of civil war between paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the government has displaced millions of Sudanese, the United Nations says. Much of the violence is taking place in the long-suffering Darfur region - where ordinary people are paying the price. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, is interviewed for this report.
Source: Deutsche Welle
19 Jun 2024
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A Massacre Threatens Darfur — Again
A civil war is ripping apart Sudan, one of Africa’s largest countries. Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab is monitoring the situation closely.
Source: The New York Times
19 Jun 2024
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More than a million threatened in Sudan city under siege by paramilitary forces
Sudan's El Fasher region was home to more than 800,000 internally displaced people before it came under siege by rebel paramilitaries. The city has become a symbol of the country’s suffering during Sudan's latest military conflict. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, provides insight into the humanitarian crisis.
Source: PBS News Hour
18 Jun 2024
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The role of public health in preventing further mass atrocities in Sudan: a call to action
The intensification of the conflict in Sudan will have further devastating consequences for civilians and demands urgent public health advocacy aligned with government calls for ceasefire, leaders of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab say in this PLOS Commentary.
Source: PLOS
18 Jun 2024
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An update on Gaza, plus a look into humanitarian crises around the globe
Nathaniel Raymond, director of YSPH's Humanitarian Research Lab, discusses the escalating humanitarian crises in Gaza and Sudan in this installment of Where We Live on Connecticut's WNPR public radio.
Source: CT Public
7 Jun 2024
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Communication and parenting styles are important when addressing intergenerational trauma
A new multi-institutional study provides key insights into family psychosocial factors potentially contributing to this transmission of intergenerational trauma and suggests possible interventions to improve the health of Rwandan youth and their families in the wake of the 1994 Tutsi genocide.
6 Jun 2024
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To avoid infection spread, how long a quarantine is sufficient? It depends
Yale School of Public Health researchers assessed how long international travelers should be quarantined to prevent COVID-19 infection rise, finding it differed quite a bit by country.
Source: Yale News
29 May 2024
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Dengue fever, once confined to the tropics, now threatens the U.S.
Climate change is expanding the habitat of the mosquitoes that carry dengue, allowing them to spread further north. “That’s concerning for places where dengue hasn’t occurred before in recent history: North America and Europe,” says YSPH Professor Dr. Albert Ko.
Source: NBC News
28 May 2024