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An infinitely easier oral treatment for East African trypanosomiasis, commonly called sleeping sickness, is now available. But YSPH Professor Serap Askoy, an international expert on the disease, is concerned that rising temperatures due to climate change may increase the risk of transmission of the disease.

School of Medicine Professor Lieping Chen and School of Public Health Professor Serap Aksoy are among four Yale faculty in NAS's class of 2021

YSPH researchers have identified a new family of proteins that could become promising vaccine candidates for curbing the threat posed by the bite of the tsetse fly.

Yale School of Public Health Research Scientist Brian Weiss, Ph.D., has identified a bacterium that can colonize the gut of tsetse flies and help stop the spread of African trypanosomes, the parasites responsible for causing human sleeping sickness, a potentially fatal disease that threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa every year.

The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering has elected 24 new members. Thirteen are Yale faculty members, of whom nine have appointments at the School of Medicine.

Partnering to render the deadly tsetse fly harmless.

A recent study from the Aksoy Lab at the Yale School of Public Health seeks to identify ways to mitigate the negative effects of tsetse flies, a particularly nasty bug species.

On March 16, President Peter Salovey and Dr. Serap Aksoy, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, took part in a signing ceremony with the Kenya Agricultural Research and Livestock Organization (KALRO) and Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) to continue an existing collaboration in the biomedical sciences in the area of vector biology.

"Friends of Yale” Event in Nairobi, Kenya - Christine Muhonja, Winnie Okeyo, Grace Murilla, President Salovey, Serap Aksoy and Erick Awouche.