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Major Funding Award Supports Yale Efforts to Address Maternal Health Inequities
A team of Yale researchers, working collaboratively with Yale New Haven Hospital, community partners and two regional hospitals, is exploring ways to improve health outcomes among pregnant and postpartum women in priority populations that have been historically underserved and experience systemic racism. A $18 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will support the study.
17 Mar 2022
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Study Looks at Association Between School Segregation and Late-life Dementia
A Yale-led study looks at how school segregation may influence the development of dementia later in life.
3 Jan 2025
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For some Black, Latino, and Asian people, summers are hotter
Black and Latino people, and some Asian populations, consistently experience hotter warm seasons than non-Hispanic white people living in the same county of the U.S., according to a new YSPH study. 
30 Jul 2024
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Embracing cultural humility in mixed methods research
The increasing use of mixed methods research in public health and medicine presents new opportunities for investigators to obtain a more inclusive and holistic understanding of the complex factors underlying today’s pressing health challenges. Yale School of Public Health Research Scientist Sinem ToramanTurk discusses the importance of cultural humility in applying the methodology.
23 Jul 2024
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Terika McCall recognized for inclusive digital health tools
McCall designs digital health tools that have the potential to reduce health inequities by facilitating connections to health and social services.
25 Jun 2024
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Early life experiences linked to racial disparities in cognition
Negative early life experiences, such as attending segregated schools, contribute significantly to cognitive decline and cognition disparities between older Black and white Americans, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
4 Jun 2024
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Visiting journalist highlights the power of storytelling in public health
Weaving together personal stories with powerful facts, journalist Linda Villarosa discussed the impact of racism in health care and strategies for the future at the February 12th Dean’s Lecture “Storytelling for Social Justice and Health”.
14 Mar 2024
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Tired of health disparities, community leads frontline solutions to climate change
Local community members respond to climate change despite the health and economic disparities they've faced for generations.
13 Feb 2024
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Yale study: Polluted air can negatively impact children’s test scores
A new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds air pollution may negatively impact standardized test scores.
14 Nov 2023
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YSPH alums keep plight of African students in Ukraine in spotlight
Three recent Yale School of Public Health graduates created a film to shine a light on the plight of African college students who encountered racism when they fled Ukraine at the outbreak of the Russian war. Their documentary was accepted to be shown ahead of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in Atlanta in November.
25 Oct 2023
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Yale Study Documents Staggering Toll of Health Disparities for Black Americans
A new study reveals a staggering disparity in life expectancy between Black Americans and their white counterparts between 1999 and 2020.
16 May 2023
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Shining a Light on ALS
The ALS Association has awarded Assistant Professor Chelsey R. Carter and Associate Professor Joan K. Monin $50,000 in funding to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
5 May 2023
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New way of measuring neonatal mortality uncovers 'paradoxical' racial disparity
A new research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics is the first to compare two methodological approaches to neonatal mortality rates side-by-side.
24 Apr 2023
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Police violence intervention aims to help Chicago youth
A police violence intervention developed by professors at Princeton and the Yale School of Public Health is helping children and teens in Chicago process the city's history of police aggression and abuse.
22 Mar 2023
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Noted civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw receives Winslow Medal
Noted civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, left, receives the Yale School of Public Health's highest honor, the C.-E. A. Winslow Medal, from Interim Dean Melinda Pettigrew during a ceremony February 3 in Harkness Auditorium. Crenshaw, a law professor at both Columbia University and UCLA who coined and developed the fields of intersectionality and critical race theory, was honored for her work in intersectionality. She is the eighth recipient of the medal.
7 Feb 2023
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Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw to receive Winslow Medal
Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose work has been foundational in two fields of study she coined and developed – critical race theory and intersectionality – will be presented with the C.-E. A. Winslow Medal, the Yale School of Public Health’s highest honor, at a ceremony Feb. 3 at Harkness Auditorium.
25 Jan 2023
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Yale Honors Young Scientist Who Was the Subject of a Police Complaint
Bobbi Wilson, 9, was honored by Yale University on Jan. 20, 2023, for her efforts in eradicating the invasive spotted lanternfly in her hometown of Caldwell, New Jersey. University officials also recognized Bobbi’s donation of her personal collection of spotted lanternfly specimens to Yale’s Peabody Museum. The collection, which was officially entered into the museum’s database, will be forever associated with Bobbi’s name as the donor scientist.
22 Jan 2023
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National Heat Vulnerability Index Reveals Neighborhoods at High Vulnerability to Heat
A team of researchers at the Yale School of Public Health has developed a metric to gauge heat vulnerability at the census-tract level and created a color-coded interactive map for public use.
18 Dec 2022
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Black Women Excluded from Critical Studies Due to ‘Weathering’
Researchers theorize Black women age earlier and faster as a result of being "weathered" by a lifetime of racial discrimination and race-based stressors. As a result, many Black women are excluded from clinical research studies after reaching age-based milestones earlier.
30 Nov 2022
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Attorney Ben Crump highlights discussion on the public health impact of policing
A Nov. 4 talk at the Yale School of Public Health brought national civil rights attorney Ben Crump to Yale to discuss his continuing fight for justice for victims of police brutality, including 36-year-old Randy Cox, a New Haven resident.
9 Nov 2022