https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-rss/?title=Recent%20News&orgId=115604 A selection of the latest research, academic, and other newsworthy developments at Weinberger Lab en-us Copyright 2026 Yale School of Medicine Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:09 Z https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-hospitals-see-surge-in-flu-cases-amid-severe-season https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-hospitals-see-surge-in-flu-cases-amid-severe-season A new flu strain mismatched to this year’s vaccine has caused an intense flu season. Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:00:00 Z https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20260114/democratizing-the-data-pophive-bridges-gap-in-public-health-information https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20260114/democratizing-the-data-pophive-bridges-gap-in-public-health-information The Yale School of Public Health recently unveiled its new PopHIVE platform, which offers reliable, real-time, synthesized health data directly to the public, providing a more complete picture for health care providers and public health experts. Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:00:00 Z https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2843197 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2843197 A new strain of flu has global health experts worried that this year's flu season may be particularly severe. YSPH Senior Fellow Dr. Anne Zink warns that flu surges can affect timely diagnosis and treatment and add strain to overtaxed health care systems. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/yale-school-of-public-healths-pophive-project-will-expand-health-data-access-thanks-to-major-grant/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/yale-school-of-public-healths-pophive-project-will-expand-health-data-access-thanks-to-major-grant/ The support will advance PopHIVE’s efforts to integrate public and private health data sources for a variety of health conditions. Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:00:00 Z https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/118459 https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/publichealth/118459 PopHIVE, a new platform created by a Yale School of Public Health team in collaboration with Dr. Anne Zink and others, pulls data from many sources to give a national picture of infectious and chronic diseases. Tue, 11 Nov 2025 05:00:00 Z https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-legionnaires-disease_l_6894c287e4b067651d491f2a?3wq https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-is-legionnaires-disease_l_6894c287e4b067651d491f2a?3wq Cases of a severe type of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease have been on the rise in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood since the end of July. YSPH Professor Daniel Weinberger, PhD, an expert on the illness, explains how bacteria in large industrial cooling units can spread the illness. Thu, 07 Aug 2025 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/new-ysph-pilot-grants-aim-to-support-innovative-interdisciplinary-research/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/new-ysph-pilot-grants-aim-to-support-innovative-interdisciplinary-research/ The Yale School of Public Health recently launched its inaugural Transformational Pilot Funding grants, providing internal seed money to empower faculty to pursue ambitious, cross-disciplinary studies that have the potential to transform health outcomes locally and globally. Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/yale-school-of-public-health-unveils-pophive/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/yale-school-of-public-health-unveils-pophive/ PopHIVE puts near real-time, reliable health data directly into the hands of the public. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/thyroid-cancer-diagnoses-declined-significantly-during-covid-19-pandemic/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/thyroid-cancer-diagnoses-declined-significantly-during-covid-19-pandemic/ A new multi-institutional study has found there was a dramatic decline in thyroid cancer diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns about a potential wave of more advanced cancer cases in the future. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:00:00 Z https://www.contagionlive.com/view/vaccination-impact-on-covid-19-mortality-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean https://www.contagionlive.com/view/vaccination-impact-on-covid-19-mortality-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean In an exclusive email interview with Contagion, Alexandra Savinkina, MSPH, PhD student specializing in the epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses her research on COVID vaccinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/mobile-lab-helps-yale-pathology-establish-relationships-build-trust-with-community/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/mobile-lab-helps-yale-pathology-establish-relationships-build-trust-with-community/ A mobile laboratory-in-a-van that brings testing services to underserved Connecticut neighborhoods is enabling Yale Pathology of Yale School of Medicine to establish relationships and build trust with community organizations. Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:00:00 Z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02165-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02165-3 YSPH microbiologist Anne Wyllie's creation of the novel diagnostic protocol SalivaDirect dramatically expanded testing access during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, Wyllie and the SalivaDirect team are exploring the use of saliva testing for influenza A and B, and for respiratory syncytial virus. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 04:00:00 Z https://www.newsweek.com/kids-putting-grandparents-risk-pneumonia-1886364 https://www.newsweek.com/kids-putting-grandparents-risk-pneumonia-1886364 A Yale-led study finds that older adults who had contact with young children daily or every few days were six times more likely to carry the bacteria that causes pneumonia than older adults who had no contact with children. Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/excess-deaths-covid-19-pandemic/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/excess-deaths-covid-19-pandemic/ Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States. Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:00:00 Z https://us.cnn.com/2023/08/17/health/rsv-virus-timing-vaccine-antibody/index.html https://us.cnn.com/2023/08/17/health/rsv-virus-timing-vaccine-antibody/index.html This year, experts think the timing of the RSV season will be closer to the pre-pandemic normal, but case numbers will probably be anything but — that is, if people embrace newly available tools to prevent RSV. Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/study-covid-restrictions-may-have-contributed-to-increase-in-rsv-infections-but-relief-could-be-coming-soon/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/study-covid-restrictions-may-have-contributed-to-increase-in-rsv-infections-but-relief-could-be-coming-soon/ Annual spikes in infections from the respiratory syncytial virus — or RSV — are usually so predictable that “you can set your clock” by it, says Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) Daniel Weinberger. Normally a cold-weather epidemic, RSV usually spreads among young children, straining hospitals in the Northern Hemisphere as early as late October and lasting until the cold and flu season wanes in spring. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have upended this rhythm in one country and possibly others. Mon, 12 Dec 2022 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/two-new-haven-locations-use-yales-salivadirect-covid-19-test/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/two-new-haven-locations-use-yales-salivadirect-covid-19-test/ Yale School of Public Health and Yale Pathology Labs have joined with the Connecticut Department of Public Health to offer free COVID testing in New Haven using the Yale-developed SalivaDirect method. Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:00:00 Z https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/New-partnership-between-CT-Yale-to-expand-16809824.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20#photo-21960400 https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/New-partnership-between-CT-Yale-to-expand-16809824.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20#photo-21960400 A new partnership between the state Department of Public Health and the SalivaDirect Initiative of the Yale School of Public Health and Yale Pathology Labs will provide additional COVID-19 testing and lab capacity in the city, officials said Thursday. Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:00:00 Z https://news.yale.edu/2021/11/01/fda-authorizes-sample-pooling-salivadirect-pcr-covid-19-test https://news.yale.edu/2021/11/01/fda-authorizes-sample-pooling-salivadirect-pcr-covid-19-test Pooled testing allows labs to combine saliva samples from multiple individuals into a single tube and process the batch as a single test. This approach maintains clinical sensitivity while enabling labs to process tests far more quickly. Tue, 02 Nov 2021 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/sex-differences-in-covid-19-immune-responses-affect-patient-outcomes/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/sex-differences-in-covid-19-immune-responses-affect-patient-outcomes/ Investigators funded by Women’s Health Research at Yale have identified significant differences in how the immune systems of women and men respond to the virus that causes COVID-19. Wed, 26 Aug 2020 04:00:00 Z https://news.yale.edu/2020/08/15/yales-rapid-covid-19-saliva-test-receives-fda-emergency-use-authorization https://news.yale.edu/2020/08/15/yales-rapid-covid-19-saliva-test-receives-fda-emergency-use-authorization A saliva-based laboratory diagnostic test developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health to determine whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus has been granted an emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Sat, 15 Aug 2020 04:00:00 Z https://news.yale.edu/2020/06/22/yale-and-nba-partner-study-efficacy-new-covid-19-test https://news.yale.edu/2020/06/22/yale-and-nba-partner-study-efficacy-new-covid-19-test A research team led by Yale’s Nathan Grubaugh and Anne Wyllie will begin testing select players, coaches, and staff from the NBA teams that have opted into the study, using a testing method they developed, known as SalivaDirect. The results of the study are expected by the end of July and will be shared publicly. Mon, 22 Jun 2020 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/fourth-virtual-deans-workshop-highlights-mathematical-modeling-as-a-valuable-covid-19-tool/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/fourth-virtual-deans-workshop-highlights-mathematical-modeling-as-a-valuable-covid-19-tool/ Sophisticated mathematical modeling and quantitative science were the topics of the fourth virtual Dean’s Workshop on the COVID-19 pandemic, held May 21, 2020. Sat, 06 Jun 2020 04:00:00 Z https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/04/27/washington-post-yale-school-public-health-form-covid-counting-consortium-3c-understand-impact-covid-19-us/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2020/04/27/washington-post-yale-school-public-health-form-covid-counting-consortium-3c-understand-impact-covid-19-us/ The Washington Post and the Yale School of Public Health today announced a partnership to form the Covid Counting Consortium (3C) to research and report on the impact of covid-19. Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/ysph-washington-post-form-partnership-to-investigate-coronavirus/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/ysph-washington-post-form-partnership-to-investigate-coronavirus/ The Washington Post and the Yale School of Public Health have formed a partnership to research and report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mon, 27 Apr 2020 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/high-prevalence-of-deadly-bacterial-disease-found-in-puerto-rico/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/high-prevalence-of-deadly-bacterial-disease-found-in-puerto-rico/ Leptospirosis—a potentially deadly bacterial disease — is far more prevalent in Puerto Rico than previously thought, a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds. Tue, 30 Jul 2019 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/congrats-to-sandy-pingali-mph-2015/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/congrats-to-sandy-pingali-mph-2015/ The lab’s first student has graduated! Sandy Pingali will be starting a PhD in Epidemiology at Emory in the fall. Wed, 27 May 2015 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/ysph-web-story-about-our-new-gates-foundation-grant/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/ysph-web-story-about-our-new-gates-foundation-grant/ YSPH web story about our new Gates Foundation grant Thu, 13 Nov 2014 04:00:00 Z https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/presentation-at-isppd-9-in-hyderabad-india/ https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/weinberger/news-article/presentation-at-isppd-9-in-hyderabad-india/ Dr. Weinberger will be presenting in the “Pneumococcal colonization and carriage” session at the International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases in Hyderabad on Monday March 10. Thu, 02 Jan 2014 04:00:00 Z