OHER Awards for Yale Research Excellence

The OHER Awards for Yale Research Excellence is an annual prize awarded to researchers, clinicians, and students across the university doing highly impactful research in health equity. Original research articles published in the previous year are eligible if first-authored by a Yale-affiliated, early-stage investigator. This award is given in special recognition of outstanding contributions to research aimed at improving health equity and addressing health disparities.

Ash Alpert, MD, MFA
Disentangling gender, sex, and biology: a mixed methods study of gender identity data collection tools
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Angela Haeny, PhD
Evidence that personalized racial stress procedures elicit a stress response and increases alcohol craving among Black adults with alcohol use disorder: A laboratory pilot study
Article

Brigid Cakouros, DrPH, MPH
Exploring equity in global health collaborations: a qualitative study of donor and recipient power dynamics in Liberia
Article

Jasmine Khubchandani, MD
Living Flat: Stories from Women of Color After Mastectomy
Article

Mytien Nguyen, MSc
Association of Socioeconomic Status, Sex, Racial, and Ethnic Identity With Sustained and Cultivated Careers in Surgery
Article

Destiny Tolliver, MD, MHS
Exploring Parental Incarceration, US Government Support Programs, and Child Health and Well-Being: A National Cross-Sectional Study
Article / Video

Emma Zang, PhD, MA, MPhil
Explaining obesity disparities by urbanicity, 2006-2016: A decomposition analysis
Article / Video

George Gross, PhD, MA, MS
Clinical Outcomes of Veterans Affairs Residential PTSD Treatment for PTSD and Depressive Symptoms: 1-Year Follow-Up Outcomes and Gender Differences
Article

Pedro Ochoa-Allemant, MD
Enhanced Identification of Hispanic Ethnicity Using Clinical Data: A Study in the Largest Integrated Unites States Health Care System
Article

Wesley Holland, MD
Racial and ethnic disparities in emergency department-initiated buprenorphine across five health care systems
Article / Video

Yiqun Ma, BMS
Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States
Article / Video

Moid Ali, MPH
Social Determinants and COVID-19 in a Community Health Center Cohort
Article / Video

Bridget Basile Ibrahim, PhD, MA, RN, FNP-BC
Inequities in Availability of Evidence-Based Birth Supports to Improve Perinatal Health for Socially Vulnerable Rural Residents
Article / Video

Sarah Y. Michels, MPH
Evaluating vaccination coverage and timeliness in American Indian/Alaska Native and non-Hispanic White children using state immunization information system data, 2015-2017
Article / Video

Yusuf Ransome, MPH, DrPH
Is race-specific neighborhood social cohesion key to reducing racial disparities in late HIV diagnosis: A multiyear ecological study
Article / Video

Luke C. Sanford, PhD
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s COVID-19 economic shutdown
Article / Video

Sarah Galvani-Townsend
Is life expectancy higher in countries and territories with publicly funded health care? Global analysis of health care access and the social determinants of health
Article / Video

Eileen Condon, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC
Racial Discrimination, Mental Health, and Parenting Among African American Mothers of Preschool-Aged Children
Article / Video

Flavia DeSouza, MD, MHS
Coping with Racism: a Perspective of COVID-19 Church Closures on the Mental Health of African Americans
Article / Video

Nancy Ringel, MD, MS
Disparities in Complications After Prolapse Repair and Sling Procedures: Trends From 2010-2018
Article / Video

Benjamin Tolchin, MD, MS, FAAN
Racial disparities in the SOFA score among patients hospitalized with COVID-19
Article / Video

Vesal Yaghoobi, MD, MSc
Quantitative assessment of the immune microenvironment in African American Triple Negative Breast Cancer: a case–control study
Article / Video