DSDE in the News

A newly published study in Annals of Internal Medicine describes the significant safety risks posed by a commonly used blood clot filter and transparency gaps in the procedures of the Food & Drug Administration that allowed the device to gain regulatory approval. Yale professor of medicine, public health, and investigative medicine Dr. Harlan Krumholz led the study.

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.

Dr. Yusuf Ransome is an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. This week, the city of Seoul, South Korea, announced it would spend $327 million to fight an epidemic of loneliness in a country where thousands of people die alone every year. In this commentary, Dr. Ransome discusses the importance of addressing social isolation in the U.S.

Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, gave the Yale School of Public Health’s first-ever state of the school address on October 17th as the first dean of the newly independent professional school.

Yale School of Public Health's Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD, has been chosen as the 2025 President-elect of the Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometrics Society (IBS), one of the largest and most impactful professional statistics and biostatistics societies.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, racial outcome disparities emerged. In the first year, for example, Black and Hispanic patients were far likelier to die than white patients were. Yet a bright spot occurred at Yale. Not only was the mortality rate throughout Yale New Haven Health in the pandemic’s first two years lower than the national average, but also no race-based survival differences occurred among discharged patients.

The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is creating a robust data science and data equity (DSDE) program that aims to transform public health research through data science discoveries and equitable implementation, and to provide data analysts with a new, collaborative career path in academic public health. The DSDE educational programming will enable the next generation of public health leaders to master core data science concepts.

A new multi-institutional study has found there was a dramatic decline in thyroid cancer diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns about a potential wave of more advanced cancer cases in the future.