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Science Sessions, the podcast of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, speaks to Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Kai Chen about the impact of wildfire smoke on human health.

Amnesty International says there are weapons from the U.S.-allied UAE and even France in Sudan's civil war, helping fuel the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

With swaths of South Sudan submerged, a whistleblower warns water sources are being polluted by oil. YSPH's Dr. Nicole Deziel comments on the situation

The 2024 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, an annual international assessment of progress toward the climate mitigation goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement — co-authored this year by three members of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health — contains some of the most dire projections to date associated with persistent global inaction over the pressing climate emergency.

Newer medications to treat diabetes and obesity are saving lives, but those who need the injectable drugs the most, were the least likely to get them.

An Iowa resident is dead after contracting a suspected case of Lassa fever in West Africa earlier this month, the CDC said. Here's what you need to know. YSPH Professor Dr. Albert Ko explains what Lassa fever is and how it is transmitted.

Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, has been named chair of the Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Planning Committee for the organization’s 2025 Annual Meeting. ASPPH represents more than 150 accredited schools and programs of public health, including a community of more than 103,000 deans, faculty, staff, and students; it is considered “the voice of academic public health."

According to a new study by researchers from the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, short-term exposure to high ambient temperatures may significantly increase the risk of stroke among people aged 18 to 64 years, especially women.

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab's documentation of conflict-driven atrocities in Sudan and Ukraine has become an essential resource for world leaders, policymakers, humanitarian organizations, and global justice advocates. As a brutal civil war tears apart North Darfur, Sudan, the HRL's staff is providing real-time detailed reports in an effort to help hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the world's largest displacement crisis.