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On the morning of the 12th annual Global Health Day, March 16, 2023, Sheela Shenoi, MD, MPH, associate director of the Internal Medicine Office of Global Health and associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases) announced the winners of this year’s Global Health awards. Anne Havlik, MPH, won the Asghar Rastegar Global Health Medical Education & Capacity Building Award, and Kenneth Gunasekera, MD, PhD, won the Gerald Friedland Global Health Research Award.
- February 24, 2022
A new study by Yale researchers finds that, due to structural racism, the populations most at risk for contracting and dying from COVID-19 — Black, Indigenous, and LatinX populations— had less access to COVID-19 testing centers.
- February 21, 2022
CASE has elected a total of 35 new members, of whom 15 are from YSM/YSPH and three others are from FAS.
- April 27, 2020
The Washington Post and the Yale School of Public Health have formed a partnership to research and report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- April 24, 2018
Tuberculosis, an infectious disease that is transmitted by coughing, is the leading cause of death attributable to a single pathogen. In China, which has the second highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world, massive rural-to-urban population shifts over the past 15 years have coincided with large increases of the disease in cities.
- January 24, 2018
In sub-Saharan Africa, meningococcal meningitis continues to pose a serious health threat, with sporadic epidemics resulting in some 30,000 cases each year.
- May 14, 2015
A new mathematical model developed by a team of scientists led by the Yale School of Public Health may help predict the optimal dosing of antibiotics.