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This series spotlights some of the amazing labs in the Department of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health. The research conducted by our EMD colleagues addresses some of the most urgent global health challenges. Here, Dr. Steven Schiff talks about the Schiff Lab and their impactful work in the field of global health.
- November 13, 2025
What started as a weeklong trip to treat pediatric epilepsy patients in Africa nearly 20 years ago has evolved into a sophisticated data collection and public health program that is providing Yale researchers with answers about the mysterious source of a neurological disease killing children.
- June 24, 2025
The Center for Brain & Mind Health Pilot Program is the center's annual keystone initiative, embodying its core value of interdisciplinary collaboration as a driver of clinically relevant neuroscience.
- April 28, 2025
Yale researchers linked low water availability before birth to Ugandan children who failed to reach normal growth.
- July 05, 2024Source: Yale News
In recent years, his work has fused his interests in physics and engineering with novel approaches to tackling global health problems in neurosurgery, such as work in Africa on hydrocephalus, neonatal sepsis, sustainable MRI imaging, childhood brain growth and image analysis, and satellite rainfall analysis.
- November 01, 2023
A genetic variant that is linked to faster progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been identified in a genome-wide association study.
- September 08, 2023Source: This Week in Microbiology
On this Week in Microbiology (TWiM), Michelle Swanson and the TWiM team discuss [minute 32] the identification of a deadly bacterial strain causing widespread deaths of newborns in Uganda.
- September 04, 2023Source: The Telegraph
Thousands of babies in the central African country develop post-infectious hydrocephalus (PIH) every year, many of whom go on to die. In June, the Lancet Microbe published the results of research in Uganda. A bacteria (Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus) was identified as the predominant infection agent for both neonatal sepsis and the subsequent PIH that developed in new-born babies.
- July 06, 2023
On June 19, 2023, after 16 years of persistent pursuit of answers, the team published a landmark paper in The Lancet Microbe detailing the results of three linked studies, conclusively identifying the Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus bacteria as responsible for postinfectious hydrocephalus in Uganda.
- March 14, 2023Source: Nature
Fifty years since the basis of magnetic resonance imaging was published, MRI scanners remain expensive — and impractical in many countries. Here’s how we are making them smaller and less costly.