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Tami Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry, has been awarded the Distinguished Mentorship Award by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), an honor recognizing sustained excellence in mentoring within the field of traumatic stress research and practice.

This summer, we saw a first-of-its-kind cross-sector collaboration – a leader in academic research and a national women’s health nonprofit joined forces to amplify the power of women’s health research and investment. The collaborative symposium “From Discovery to Impact: Accelerating Women's Health Research Through Science, Policy, and Investment” hosted by Women’s Health Research at Yale and the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) on June 15 in New Haven, Conn., welcomed more than 50 speakers, researchers from 28 departments across Yale, and gathered 350+ attendees for a day-long event that covered the power of women’s health research through an arc of discovery to practical impact.

From left, Sherry McKee, PhD; Tami Sullivan, PhD; and MacKenzie Peltier, PhD participated in a meeting hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in Maryland on May 14 and 15 to discuss evidence-based approaches to address the intersection of menopause, substance use, and behavioral health.

Johanna Perez, postgraduate associate in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, has been selected to receive a 2026 CPA Travel Award for the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Conference, sponsored by APA Division 50.

In a new study, Yale researchers discovered that the use of a clinical decision support tool improved the care of sexual assault survivors in the emergency department.

Everytown Research recently featured research by Tami P. Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry, who studied how firearm exposure plays out in the daily lives of women experiencing intimate partner violence.

Patricia Nez Henderson, MD, MPH and Tami Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, serve as co-leads of the Healing Within: Smoking Cessation Intervention for American Indian Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence project.

The Sullivan Lab welcomed research partners from South Dakota during a recent visit to Yale.

Tami Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry, spoke to the online news service ADDitude about the use of safety cards as an intervention tool for victims of intimate partner violence.