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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ranjit Deshpande to the Departmental Leadership team in the new role of Vice Chair of Finance & Strategy.

The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference – the world’s only multilateral decision-making forum on climate change – is taking place from November 30 through December 12 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Drs. Robert Dubrow, MD, and Jodi Sherman, MD, from the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, highlight the latest findings of the annual Lancet Countdown report on health and climate change in advance of this year's international gathering.

Yale School of Medicine doctors and researchers with friends and family in Ukraine have organized to raise funds and equipment for overwhelmed hospitals in the embattled country.

Women's Health Research at Yale announces recipients of 2023 Pilot Project Program Grants

A Yale-led study has discovered a new way to potentially treat aortic aneurysms in individuals with Marfan Syndrome.

A recent study published in Pulmonary Circulation assesses changes in oxygen extraction following post-acute sequelae of SARS-Cov-2 infection (PASC) syndrome, or “long COVID.” PASC may affect half of patients who recover from COVID-19. One debilitating hallmark is a persistent decrease in exercise tolerance.

Dengue. Zika. Lyme. Yellow fever. Chikungunya virus. Malaria. These worldwide diseases, and others, are spread by the bite from an infected arthropod, a tick or mosquito. Five faculty from Yale School of Medicine (YSM) are collaborating on a project focusing on creating vaccines against infectious diseases by targeting the vector, which could be a “game changer” for global health.

Kevan Herold, MD, C.N.H. Long Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Endocrinology), talks about a drug that could change the landscape for patients with type 1 diabetes.

Women only account for 19% of surgeon-scientists, and they are 25% less likely to be “super principal investigators” (SPIs)—investigators who hold multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and therefore hold considerable influence and career security.