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Among the Qom, an Indigenous community in northern Argentina, Claudia Valeggia, PhD, is known simply as “La Doctora.”The title, which translates to “the doctor,” has accompanied a relationship spanning three decades.
Though not a medical doctor, Valeggia, a professor of anthropology at Yale University and a faculty affiliate at the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH), is known by the name because of her focus on questions of health and well-being. She began working with the Qom in 1996, when a research question about breastfeeding and fertility brought her to the community.
- October 30, 2026
Malaria has been a throughline in Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH’s career for nearly as long as he has been in medicine. Parikh, professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and of infectious diseases at Yale School of Public Health and a faculty affiliate at the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH), traces some of his earliest encounters with malaria to travels to India and other parts of the world growing up. The disease would become a much more direct part of his life during medical school, when he traveled to India to conduct malaria research and actually contracted malaria himself. Malaria has remained at the center of Parikh’s work ever since, as the mosquito-borne parasitic disease remains a major cause of illness and death in many parts of the world.
- October 22, 2026Source: IDWeek Daily News
Speakers at an IDWeek panel session highlighted successful research and education partnerships, emphasizing local ownership, reciprocity and sustainability.
- October 22, 2026Source: AJMC News
Speakers at IDWeek 2026 urged shifting global health partnerships from donor-recipient models to shared, locally led ownership as funding contracts.
- October 22, 2026Source: Yale News
An educational program intended to improve maternal and child health fundamentally altered the social fabric of the rural Honduran villages where it was implemented, a new Yale-led study finds.
- October 21, 2026
Albert Icksang Ko, MD, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) as part of its 2026 class of 100 new members.
- October 19, 2026
Albert Ko and Roy Herbst were among the 2026 inductees to the National Academy of Medicine.
- October 19, 2026Source: Yale News
Marcella Nunez-Smith, a national leader in public health, received the forum’s Elga R. Wasserman Courage, Clarity, and Leadership Award this week.
- October 19, 2026Source: Yale News
Marcella Nunez-Smith, a national leader in public health, received the forum’s Elga R. Wasserman Courage, Clarity, and Leadership Award this week.
- October 12, 2026
The Department of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) honored former department chair Gary V. Désir, MD, with the inaugural Gary V. Désir Lecture on September 24, 2026, featuring physician-scientist Richard Kibbey, MD, PhD.