Margaret Fikrig, MD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases), thoughtful clinician, educator, and role model, will retire on June 30, 2025.
The Yale Institute for Global Health hosted its Second Annual Global Health Symposium on April 11, 2025, at the Yale School of Public Health. Topics included the important role academic institutions play in advocating for global health amidst the current policy environment, and how multidisciplinary academic and research partnerships at Yale support global health.
In a new study, published in Nature Medicine, a team of researchers at the Center for Phage Biology and Therapy at Yale discovered a novel approach that may revolutionize the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Scott Roberts, assistant professor of infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine and associate medical director for Infection Prevention at Yale New Haven Health shares his perspective on whooping cough cases in this news story. This year, 8,077 cases of whooping cough have been reported in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's more than double the case rate from last year.
In a Q&A, Yale School of Medicine's Shana Gleeson, MD, discusses the risk of infection among transplant recipients, common and opportunistic infections, and how infectious diseases connect us all.
Faculty Network Spotlight: 3rd Annual Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Symposium
On Friday, February 21st, two YIGH Faculty Networks – the Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases and MalarYale – hosted the third annual Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases Symposium. The initiative, led by Brian Weiss, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology and Lecturer (Microbial Diseases), Chantal Vogels, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), and Serap Aksoy, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), included 22 presentations across four sessions and featured three keynote speakers: Dr. Photini Sinnis, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Albert Ko, MD, Yale School of Public Health, and Jeff...
Scott Roberts, MD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Yale School of Medicine, discusses the likelihood of children not catching up on childhood vaccines during the pandemic.