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YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou discusses the U.S. Surgeon General's call for warning labels on alcoholic beverages due to scientific information linking alcohol consumption to cancer.

Why does olive oil help combat climate change? How can soil affect human well-being? What does marketing have to do with public health? These were just a few of the many questions considered by almost 100 participants from 15 countries at the 6th International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health in Heraklion, Crete, Greece at the beginning of December.

The benefits of water fluoridation have become the subject of much national debate. YSPH professors Nicole Deziel and Vasilis Vasiliou provide their expert perspectives.

Is it sulfites, tannins, or another culprit? Here’s what the research says about the migraines some people get with a glass of merlot. YSPH Professor and Department Chair Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou provides his expert perspective.

Yale School of Public Health environmental toxicologist Vasilis Vasiliou calls a new artificial turf cooling system a good effort, but he has other concerns about the potential health impacts associated with fake grass.

As the world prepares for the start of the Olympic Games in Paris later this month, it is still unclear whether the city’s iconic Seine River will be clean enough for competitive swimming events. In a new video, Yale’s Jordan Peccia and Vasilis Vasiliou discuss the perennial challenge of pollution that caused officials to ban swimming in the river more than a century ago.

Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou on Yale Cancer Answers.

Kei-Hoi Cheung, PhD, has been awarded a grant by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to research environmental health data and drinking water contamination using AI methods.

An observational study has found that regular olive oil consumption may have cognitive health benefits. YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou comments on the study.