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Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Liz Znamierowski runs the Mother and Infant Mobile Clinic based out of the storefront at 270 Congress Avenue. Launched by Dr. Leslie Sude in 2020, the Mother and Infant program brought care to mothers and newborns in New Haven during the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed that there was enough community need to continue its services beyond the pandemic. In partnership with American Medical Response, the Mother and Infant Mobile Clinic utilizes a retrofitted ambulance to provide dyadic healthcare curbside to patients’ residences.
- April 25, 2024
On April 23, a portrait honoring former Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert J. Alpern, MD, was unveiled at the Yale Medical Historical Library.
- April 25, 2024
Upkeep Care, an artificial intelligence platform the connects older adults and caregivers to resources, topped a record 36 teams to win the 2024 Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, presented by InnovateHealth Yale (IHY). The four-member team, including three Yale School of Public Health students, bested three other Yale student-led teams with their final pitch at Startup Yale, the university’s largest entrepreneurial event, April 5 at the Hotel Marcel in New Haven.
- 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 24, 2024
Yale School of Medicine and Equitable Breakthroughs in Medicine Development (EQBMED) — a multi-institute collaboration focused on clinical trial diversity — announced today a new partnership with 14 community and faith-based organizations and professional societies, furthering its mission to foster equitable access to clinical trials.
- April 24, 2024Source: The Michigan Daily
YSPH Associate Professor Xi Chen recently spoke with The Michigan Daily about his research paper, “Something in the pipe: The Flint water crisis and health at birth.”
- April 24, 2024Source: Yale Daily News
The program develops Yale students’ interest in innovation to solve global health challenges through collaboration, creative methods and business approaches.
- April 22, 2024
The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health believes that protecting human health is the most powerful yet under-tapped driving force for climate action.
- April 18, 2024Source: Yale Daily New
The MPH-HEF program will help students gain expertise on health economics and financing.
- 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.