YCCCH's affiliated faculty are committed to collaboration on a wide range of topics for interdisciplinary research including food and water insecurity, infectious diseases, population displacement, climate disasters (preparedness, post-disaster response, morbidity and mortality surveillance), health co-benefits of climate change mitigation and adaptation, climate change and pandemics, climate change impacts on microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance, and climate justice.
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
Global Health
One Health
Trypanosomiasis, African
Tsetse Flies
Professor Aksoy is a tropical medicine researcher whose work focuses on the epidemiology of insect transmitted (vector borne) and zoonotic diseases. Her research has been on tsetse flies and the pathogenic parasites they transmit that cause highly neglected and fatal diseases of humans in Africa, known as Sleeping Sickness. Her laboratory focuses on deciphering the vector-parasite molecular dialogue and parasite development during the transmission process with the ultimate goal of identifying novel targets of interference and developing transmission blocking vaccines to reduce disease. Her fundamental and interdisciplinary work on tsetse and its microbial symbionts has identified key principles that shape host-microbe interactions. Her studies with tsetse's mutualistic microbes identified nutritional contributions that facilitate female fecundity and mediate host immune...
Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
Intestinal Diseases
Antidiarrheals
I am a URM physician-scientist and Professor of Pediatrics (Gastroenterology), Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. I have led an NIH-supported laboratory for over 2 decades and trained multiple undergraduate students, post-docs, medical students and research scientists, the majority of whom come from under-represented backgrounds. My research interest is focused on mechanisms responsible for diarrheal diseases. My lab primarily investigates mechanisms regulating the CFTR chloride channel in the intestine and how these are linked to genetic, and non-genetic diarrheal diseases and Cystic Fibrosis (CF). We elucidated trafficking mechanisms regulating CFTR that are implicated in diarrhea that are the basis for successful drug therapies to treat constipation and increase intestinal fluidity (Linaclotide, Lubiprostone). Currently, we investigate...
Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences) and Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment; Co-Director, Environmental Health Sciences Track, Executive MPH
Paul T. Anastas is the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment. He has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Anastas took public service leave from Yale to serve as the Assistant Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency Science Advisor from 2009-2012. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from...
Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Dr. Theodore Andreadis is the Director of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and Head of the Center for Vector Biology & Zoonotic Diseases where he formally directed the State of Connecticut’s Mosquito and Arbovirus Research and Surveillance Programs. He is a native of Massachusetts, has two grown children and resides in Cheshire with his wife Peg. Dr. Andreadis holds a B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Biology and M.S. degree in Medical Entomology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Ph.D. in Insect Pathology from the University of Florida at Gainesville. He is also holds an appointment as a Clinical Professor within the Epidemiology of Microbial Disease Division at the Yale School of Public Health and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pathobiology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of over 195 scientific...
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Ernest Asare is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases. His primary research focuses on using mathematical models to describe the transmission dynamics, evaluate the impact of interventions and understand the influence of meteorological and climatic factors on diarrhea and malaria diseases. He uses mathematical models to better understand and quantify the drivers of differential impact of rotavirus vaccines. He is also interested in how climate change will affect mosquito population and intensity and distribution of malaria.
Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and of Emergency Medicine
Carl Baum, MD, FAAP, FACMT, is board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and in Medical Toxicology, and has over 30 years' experience in both subspecialties. He serves as attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department, and as Director of the state-funded Lead Poisoning and Regional Treatment Center. Nationally, Dr. Baum currently serves the following organizations: • Executive Committee, Council on Children and Disasters, American Academy of Pediatrics • National Biodefense Science Board, Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response, US Department of Health and Human Services • Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee, US Anti-Doping Agency In addition, he is a member of the International Society for Children's Health and the Environment.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Mircrobial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
Genetics, Population
Genomics
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Ecology
Genetics
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Biostatistics
Adaptive Immunity
Africa
Molecular Epidemiology
Malaria Vaccines
Malaria, Falciparum
Senegal
Dr. Bei’s research interests in Plasmodium – the causative agent of malaria - lie at the intersection between population genetics, genomics, molecular genetics, epidemiology, and immunology. Her current research uses a translational systems biology approach to study the impact of antigenic diversity on immune evasion, transmission, and virulence in setting of declining malaria transmission. She is studying the development of genotype-specific and genotype-transcendent immunity and assess the effect of specific persisting genotypes on neutralizing humoral immune responses and their transmission potential in the mosquito vector. She also works on malaria vaccine candidate discovery and validation, studying the functional consequences of naturally arising diversity. Dr. Bei has ongoing research projects in Senegal in addition to many active collaborations in Sub-Saharan...
Mary E. Pinchot Professor at the School of the Environment and Professor of Environmental Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
Epidemiology
Environmental Health
Dr. Michelle Bell is the Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health at the Yale University School of the Environment, with secondary appointments at the Yale School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Division; the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs; and the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, Environmental Engineering Program. Her research investigates how human health is affected by atmospheric systems, including air pollution and weather. Other research interests include the health impacts of climate change and environmental justice. Much of this work is based in epidemiology, biostatistics, and environmental engineering. The research is designed to be policy-relevant and contribute to well-informed decision-making to better protect human health and benefit society. She is the recipient of the Prince Albert II de Monaco / Institut Pasteur Award, the...
Dr. Laelia Benoit is a Clinical Fellow (PGY-2) in the Solnit Integrated Training Program in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. She is a French and Brazilian Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist (fully trained in France) and came to the U.S. in 2021 to work as a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Benoit maintains her affiliation with the French NIH (Inserm, CESP, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations). Dr. Benoit is the co-director of QUALab, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Lab, a collaboration between the Yale Child Study Center (Dr. Andrés Martin), and the CESP (Dr. Bruno Falissard). Dr. Benoit's previous research focused on early intervention in psychosis, anxious school refusal, and access to care for minorities. Her current project assesses the impact of climate change on the mental health of children...
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Assistant Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
Policy
Political Systems
Public Health Systems Research
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Pharmacoepidemiology
Social Medicine
Public Health
Social Determinants of Health
Social Justice
Vulnerable Populations
Human Rights
History
History of Medicine
Global Health
Government Regulation
Bioethics
Adaptive Clinical Trials as Topic
Environment and Public Health
Epidemiology
Ethics
Dr. Bothwell is an ethicist and historian of public health. Her research examines social, historical, and ethical dimensions of epidemiology with a particular focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Her current book project examines how international and national policies have influenced trial rigor and ethics, protections of vulnerable trial subjects, and participant diversity in RCTs. She also does work at the intersection of climate change, epidemiology, and ethics. She completed a PhD in the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Health Policy, Law, and Ethics in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has also had visiting appointments at Oxford University,...
Assistant Professor Adjunct of Medicine (General Medicine), Assistant Clinical Professor (Yale School of Nursing); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Climate Change and Health
Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program
Research Interests
Pediatrics
Public Health
Malaria
Microbiology
Ghana
Global Health
Hookworm Infections
Infectious Disease Medicine
Africa, Western
Developing Countries
Tropical Medicine
Michael Cappello MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, and Professor of Pediatrics and Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale Medical School. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Biomedical Ethics and received his MD from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. After training in adult and Pediatric infectious diseases at Yale, Dr. Cappello joined the faculty in 1995, where he oversees a laboratory and field based research program focused on global health, tropical medicine and molecular parasitology. He is a 2007 recipient of the Bailey K. Ashford medal, awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene “for distinguished work in tropical medicine.” In addition to research, Dr. Cappello provides clinical care as an Infectious Diseases specialist at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is...
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
One Health
Plague
Machine Learning
Malaria
Legal Epidemiology
Global Health
Data Science
Ecology
Climate Change
Anthrax
Arboviruses
Viral Zoonoses
Dr. Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University School of Public Health. His work explores the challenges faced by health systems in the Anthropocene, with a focus on how climate change increases risks from both infectious diseases of poverty and pandemic threats. His research also explores problems in global health governance, with several ongoing projects focused on the legal, political, and scientific determinants of outbreak reporting and scientific data sharing. Dr. Carlson is also the co-founder and executive director of Verena, a cross-university collaboration of over a dozen early career scientists developing a data science-driven approach to assessing which viruses pose a risk to human health, and where, when, and why they might emerge in human populations. In 2019, Verena was selected as an NSF Biology Integration Institute, a five-year, $12.5m cooperative...
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health); Director of Education, Climate Change and Health
Dr. Daniel Carrión is an environmental health scientist focused on the intersection of climate, energy, and health (in)equity. He conducts exposure science and environmental epidemiology of ambient temperature and air pollution in the United States and internationally. Broadly speaking, his goal is to understand the relationship between structural forms of inequality with exposure and health disparities to identify and support interventions. More specifically, he is interested in the role of the home and neighborhood environment as opportunities for intervention towards climate and health equity, largely focused on energy transitions. Dr. Carrión received his BA from Ithaca College, an MPH from New York Medical College, a PhD from Columbia University, and postdoctoral training at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Beyond his research, Dr. Carrión is a Senior Fellow of the Agents...
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Chang is an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine with clinical expertise in echocardiography (cardiac ultrasound) and research interests in environmental cardiology. His investigative work focuses on understanding how climate change and its myriad environmental manifestations impact heart health, and how we may leverage digital data sources to detect such harms while exploring risk mitigation strategies for their effects. He completed his undergraduate training at Yale University, then attended Stanford for medical school and internal medicine residency, where he was selected for the medicine/global health track and served as Chief Resident. He undertook graduate research training with a Masters degree in Epidemiology at Stanford, which he extended to a PhD in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. He completed his...
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences); Co-Faculty Director, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering in 2016 from Nanjing University in China. During 2014-2015, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Yale School of Public Health faculty in July 2019, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellow at Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Center for Environmental Health.Dr. Chen’s research focuses on the intersection of climate change, air pollution, and human health. His work involves applying multidisciplinary approaches in climate and air pollution sciences, exposure assessment, and environmental epidemiology to investigate how climate change may impact human health. Much of this work has been done in China, Europe, and the U.S.
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Associate Professor at Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC)
Research Interests
Aging
Air Pollution
Alzheimer Disease
Child
Cognition
Dementia
Economics
Medicare
Pensions
Retirement
Social Behavior
Climate Change
Big Data
Xi Chen, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Public Health (Health Policy), of Global Health, of Economics, and of Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. He is a faculty fellow at the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Yale Center for Climate Change and Health, Yale Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS), and a faculty advisor of the Yale-China Association. He is a PEPPER Scholar at Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. His research endeavors focus on economics and public policies on population aging, and global health systems. Currently, his main research projects involve: 1) Economics of cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), using both medical claims data and survey data to investigate how cognitive aging may...
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Research Interests
Bartonella
Borrelia
Orthohantavirus
Leptospira
Lyme Disease
Rabies
Rickettsia
Global Health
Zoonoses
Arenavirus
Senior Scientist Childs’ area of research includes theecological dynamics of directly-transmitted zoonotic viruses, including the hantaviruses, arenaviruses and rabies, and vector-borne bacteria, including rickettsia, bartonella and borrelia. Prior to coming to Yale in 2004, Dr. Childs served as the Chief of the Viral and Rickettial Zoonoses Branch at CDC. His recent interests and research, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Albert Ko, Division Chief at Yale, and Fleur Porter, an MPH candidate, focus on the ecoepidemiology of intra- and inter-specific transmission of leptospires in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil. The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) is the principal reservoir host for leptospires causing human disease in Salvador, however, scant knowledge exists on the mechanisms of acquisition, maintenance and shedding of this bacterium by rats. Humans are directly infected by...
Deborah R. Coen earned a Ph.D. in History of Science from Harvard University, where she was also a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows. Before coming to Yale, she taught for ten years in the History Department at Barnard College and was Director of Research Clusters for the Columbia Center for Science and Society. Her research interests include the history of the modern physical and environmental sciences, modern central European intellectual and cultural history, history of the family, and scientific internationalism. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life (2007) and The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (2013), both published by the University of Chicago Press. Her latest book, Climate in Motion: Thinking Across Scales in the Habsburg Empire (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2018), is...
Dr. Cort is a Lecturer at the Yale School of Management, Faculty Advisor for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and has a secondary appointment in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and over 15 years experience in global corporate settings advising on sustainability matters including metrics, risk management and auditing practices.