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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, 2024
The rare emergence of overlapping 13- and 17-year cicada broods in parts of the U.S. is expected to produce continuous insect buzzing that can be overwhelming to individuals with sensory sensitivities.
- 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, 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 24, 2024Source: Yale News
A new study co-authored by Yale economist and School of Public Health Associate Professor Zack Cooper links rising prices for hospital care to lax antitrust enforcement.
- 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 22, 2024Source: Yale News
Proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid, including raising the age of Medicare eligibility, could lead to thousands of additional deaths, a Yale study shows.
- April 22, 2024Source: Yale News
Yale researchers say that nasal application of neomycin shows promise in the prevention and treatment of respiratory viral infections.
- April 22, 2024Source: The Wall Street Journal
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and other allied militias in recent days have attacked and torched villages in war-torn Darfur. Satellite images analyzed by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab show significant new fire damage in 11 villages west of El Fasher since late March.
- April 22, 2024Source: NBC News
The study adds to a growing body of research that explores why women and minorities tend to receive worse medical care than men and white patients. YSPH Dean Dr. Megan L. Ranney comments.