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Carlos Grilo, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology and Director of the Program for Obesity Weight and Eating Research (POWER) at Yale, is co-author of a paper published in BMC Medicine that details the recently approved 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD).

Elevate, a policy lab at Yale School of Medicine and Hopelab, a social innovation lab in San Francisco, Calif., recently teamed up in a collaboration focused on the MoMba® app, a social media application designed to strengthen the mental health of mothers as well as their connections with their young children.

Bias against age is prevalent in many societies, embedded into societal institutions and expressed in individual perceptions and behaviors, and studies have shown that ageism can negatively affect older people’s health. As the aging population around the world continues to grow, these biases could add to already skyrocketing health care costs, say experts.

In the largest examination to date of the health consequences of ageism, or age-based bias, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have found evidence that it harms the health of older people in 45 countries and across 5 continents. The study included over 7 million participants.

It's time to treat sex-and-gender differences in health as just differences, absent any value judgments.

Now is the time to make permanent and pervasive change in health research and practice that benefits everyone.

Sex-and-gender differences have important effects on how we live our daily lives.

Meet the members of WHRY's current class of undergraduate fellows.

Avram Holmes, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry, has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).