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Over a decade ago, Dr. Nicola Hawley, PhD, connected with a colleague in American Samoa to learn more about prenatal care delivery and how pregnancy might provide an opportunity to impact chronic disease prevention interventions.
Obesity and overweight are highly prevalent among pregnant Samoan women, and a previous study conducted by Dr. Hawley and her colleagues found those conditions to be associated with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. They also discovered a lack of data about gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in the U.S. territory, but they estimate that about 40% of women in American Samoa will develop GDM during pregnancy. At the time, screening rates for gestational diabetes were low, largely due to a lack of awareness about the condition and issues with supply-side service provision.
- November 07, 2024Source: NPR
DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. YSPH's Dr. Luke Davis, an expert on TB and HIV, comments.
- November 04, 2024
The 2024 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, an annual international assessment of progress toward the climate mitigation goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement — co-authored this year by three members of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health — contains some of the most dire projections to date associated with persistent global inaction over the pressing climate emergency.
- November 01, 2024
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced the election of two Yale School of Medicine (YSM) faculty members as new NAM members. Erol Fikrig, MD, is Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and of microbial pathogenesis, and section chief for infectious disease in YSM’s Department of Internal Medicine. Haifan Lin, PhD, is Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology; professor of genetics; of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences; and of dermatology; and director of the Yale Stem Cell Center. They are among 90 newly elected regular members of NAM, along with 10 international members.
- October 22, 2024
The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab's documentation of conflict-driven atrocities in Sudan and Ukraine has become an essential resource for world leaders, policymakers, humanitarian organizations, and global justice advocates. As a brutal civil war tears apart North Darfur, Sudan, the HRL's staff is providing real-time detailed reports in an effort to help hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the world's largest displacement crisis.
- October 21, 2024
LIFT is a comprehensive nine-month program running from October 2024 to June 2025, anchored by two intensive five-day residential modules held in Melbourne, Australia. Diverse teams from ICUs (called delegations) will identify a significant challenge – a clinical or operational performance measure believed to be influenced by the unit’s organizational culture - within their units to address in their transformation project. Delegates will delve into the root causes of their respective challenges and develop strategic interventions to affect meaningful structural change.
- October 14, 2024Source: Yale Daily News
XEC is on track to become the new dominant COVID-19 strain this winter. Yale and New Haven experts weigh in on why you should still get the new vaccine even though it may be less effective at neutralization because it is a recombinant variant.
- October 08, 2024
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health tackle the challenges of urban health, children’s health, and health care sustainability at Climate Week NYC
- October 07, 2024
Anqi He, MPH, a 2021-2022 Wilbur G. Downs Fellow, published a paper based on her Downs Fellowship project and MPH thesis in PLOS Global Public Health. The paper, entitled “Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) in Mozambique: A Qualitative Study Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)” examines the challenges and opportunities surrounding the implementation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) designed by the World Health Organization in Mozambique.
- October 01, 2024
Health Fellow on the Health and Development team for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)