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Yale will launch the Aging Well With HIV Through Alcohol Research and Risk Reduction and Education (AWAR3E) Center with a five-year grant awarded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

A new collaborative program, the Ugandan Registry of RMDs in HIV (GEMINI), aims to improve the study of HIV and rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) in Uganda.

A new Yale-led retrospective cohort study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence examined the efficacy of a range of treatments for patients who survived an opioid overdose and identified treatments that are most successful in preventing subsequent overdoses.

Amy C. Justice, MD, PhD, C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) at Yale School of Medicine, professor of public health (health policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, and staff physician at the West Haven VA Medical Center, received the 2025 John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM).

Emma Biegacki, MPH, program manager in the Section of General Internal Medicine, and Denise Brennan, medical coordinator in Medical Education, were honored with the 2025 Department of Internal Medicine Service Excellence Award at the Internal Medicine Staff Town Hall on April 30, 2025.

Meet Basile Njei, MD, MPH, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (digestive diseases). Njei is combining genetics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve clinical outcomes, detect liver disease, and identify genetic and clinical predictors of liver disease. Njei is currently the co-director of the International Medicine Program in the Section of Digestive Diseases, through which he collaborates with the U.S. embassy in Cameroon to improve medical education and integrate AI into health care in Africa.

Fentanyl drives overdose deaths despite harm reduction—expert debate broader implications.

Rather than failing, harm reduction strategies, as articulated by Fiellin and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine is generating real benefits to patients and society.

The Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center, a Yale-based research center that supports 16 large-scale pragmatic clinical trials of non-drug approaches to managing pain, has been awarded a funding extension to continue its work for six years.