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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.

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.

The support will advance PopHIVE’s efforts to integrate public and private health data sources for a variety of health conditions.

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.

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.

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.

PopHIVE puts near real-time, reliable health data directly into the hands of the public.

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.

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.