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President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden highlighted the progress made in the first year of the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research. Yale's Carolyn M. Mazure, PhD, chairs the Initiative.

Three Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty have been promoted to new leadership roles at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven.

Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and psychology; Ralitza Gueorguieva, PhD, senior research scientist in biostatistics, and Yale co-authors tested the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy, lisdexamfetamine, and the combination of the two for binge-eating disorder comorbid with obesity. The results were published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

The man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson suffered with chronic back issues which friends claimed left him unable to live a normal life.

David Klemanski, PsyD, MPH, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been appointed to a three-year (2025-2027) term on the American Psychological Association's Commission on Accreditation.

Members of Imani Breakthrough Opioid Recovery, a faith-based individual and group wellness intervention taking place in the community within Latinx and Black churches, presented their program at Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on November 19, 2024.

Frances J. Griffith, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, and Lisa Fucito, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry are first and senior authors, respectively, of a paper in Nature Digital Medicine that describes a user experience analysis, including natural language processing, from a digital intervention for reducing alcohol risk and improving sleep health in young adults.

The Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center, a Yale-based research center that supports 16 large-scale pragmatic clinical trials of non-drug approaches to managing pain, has been awarded a funding extension to continue its work for six years.

Jacob Tebes, PhD, professor of psychiatry (psychology), in the Child Study Center and of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) has received a two-year research grant from the National Institute of Justice to extend the multi-level, mixed methods evaluation of Elm City COMPASS , a community-based initiative to create a system of sustainable supports for people in New Haven who experience a mental health or substance use crisis.