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KFF Announces Board Leadership Changes and New Trustees
- May 18, 2022
Yale School of Medicine researchers recently conducted a field study of the BACTrack Skyn, the most promising new wrist-worn alcohol biosensor, and provided it to 47 heavy-drinking young adults to wear under conditions of daily living.
- April 07, 2022Source: Yale News
A new Yale study finds increasingly persistent racial and ethnic disparities when it comes to how many hours individuals sleep per day.
- April 07, 2022
A new Yale study finds increasingly persistent racial and ethnic disparities when it comes to how many hours individuals sleep per day.
- April 04, 2022
African-American adult patients are more likely than white patients to receive substandard gastrointestinal cancer surgery, according a large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The findings are reported today in the journal JAMA Network Open.
- March 31, 2022
Office of Health Equity Research Executive Director, Dr. Daniel Sarpong, presents the Spring 2022 Colloquium.
- March 29, 2022
After two years, the pandemic continues to affect the Black community. The State of Black America and COVID-19 report is Black Coalition Against COVID's effort to emphasize the inequities of the health care system to ensure a future of Health Equity.
- March 29, 2022Source: The New York Times
It has long been clear that Black Americans have experienced high rates of coronavirus infection, hospitalization and death throughout the pandemic. But those factors are now leading experts to sound the alarm about what will may come next: a prevalence of long Covid in the Black community and a lack of access to treatment.
- March 28, 2022Source: CSR Wire
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith discusses how the pandemic has impacted health equity and disparities.
- March 17, 2022
Inginia Genao, MD, FACP, recently announced that she will be leaving Yale after 17 years to become dean, Diversity, Equity, and Belonging at Penn State College of Medicine.