News from around Yale and the World

Suicide remains a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 800,000 deaths each year. The burden falls disproportionately on low- and middle-income countries, which account for roughly 75% of global suicides. In South Asia, where suicide rates are among the highest globally, stigma and legal barriers often make prevention efforts especially challenging. For Ashley Hagaman, PhD, MPH, associate professor of public health (social and behavioral sciences) at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a faculty affiliate of the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH), addressing this issue means developing solutions that are not only evidence-based, but also locally feasible and culturally grounded.

Palliative care focuses on improving quality of life for patients with serious illness – addressing pain, symptoms, and the emotional and social challenges that accompany disease. However, in many parts of the world, access to this type of care remains extremely limited. In Ethiopia, where access to palliative care is especially scarce, Eleanor Reid, MD, PhD, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and a faculty affiliate of the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH), has been working to expand access through community-based approaches.

Hundreds of Pakistani children received contaminated shots at a state hospital — and officials keep looking the other way

Aging does not mean inevitable decline, new YSPH research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements.

Seventeen Yale Ob/Gyn faculty members have been recognized in Connecticut Magazine's 2026 “Top Doctors” edition.

Geo-Targeted Implementation of a Novel Mobile Pharmacy and Clinic Healthcare Delivery Model with Community Health Workers for Prevention, Care, and Treatment of HIV and Substance Use is a $10 million, five-year, team science research grant funded by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Early exposure to PFAS, a group of widely used compounds known as "forever chemicals," was associated with a higher risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, according to University of California, Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health researchers.

Recorded at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this special episode of Explore Global Health features Tracy Rabin, MD (Yale University) and James Hudspeth, MD (Boston University) about the future of global health education. They explore the importance of truly bidirectional partnerships, the policy barriers that limit international clinicians from training in the U.S., and what institutions can do now to create more equitable, impactful collaborations.

Two senior undergraduate students at Yale, each of whom conducted extensive research in labs at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), were recent recipients of prestigious awards for postgraduate study.