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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 Powell, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine.

A groundbreaking new pan-African initiative supported in part by a Yale Planetary Solutions grant will explore innovative financing solutions for the co-management of ecosystems and public health in Africa.

The Yale Institute for Global Health has selected Nadir Ijaz, MD, MHS; Bernardo Lombo, MD; and Brian Weiss, PhD to receive the Spring 2024 Global Health Spark Award. Each recipient will receive an award of up to $10,000. The Global Health Spark Award aims to provide initial funding to support global health research initiatives and partnerships among YIGH-affiliated faculty.

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.