Public Health Modeling News
When we talk about heat, what are we talking about? The health effects of temperature are really two-fold, if it gets either too hot or too cold, people can die, and people can get sick.
- May 16, 2024
Three outstanding members of the Yale School of Public Health faculty are honored as part of the 2024 distinguished faculty awards.
- May 14, 2024Source: TIME
Wildfires burning in Canada are sending smoke across the border, prompting U.S. officials to issue air quality warnings in several northern states. YSPH Assistant Professor Kai Chen discusses the potential health impact.
- April 25, 2024Source: Los Angeles Times
Mosquito control agencies in Southern California are desperate to tamp down an invasive mosquito — called Aedes aegypti — that has exploded in recent years. YSPH Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh provides insight.
- April 17, 2024Source: The New York Times
Instead of drugs that must be taken daily, scientists are closing in on longer-acting alternatives — perhaps even a future in which H.I.V. may require attention just twice a year, inconceivable in the darkest decades of the epidemic. Featuring Yale School of Public Health's Gregg Gonsalves.
- April 01, 2024
A multidisciplinary team of Yale scientists has received a $4-million federal grant to study the effectiveness of a new vaccine and monoclonal antibody shot designed to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants.
- March 20, 2024
The profound impact of climate change on community health was the topic of the 2024 Connecticut Symposium on Climate Change and Health at the Yale School of Public Health.
- March 18, 2024
Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians and scientists will share new data for breakthrough and emerging cancer treatments as well as new discoveries in obesity, tobacco, evolution, and early onset cancers in early April at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting.
- March 11, 2024
Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.
- March 06, 2024
Population aging constitutes a crucial driver for future heat- and cold-related deaths.