News from around Yale and the World

Four YSPH students responded to an unconventional challenge from Assistant Professor Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD. Instead of a final paper, build something different — a public health communication project, delivered to a larger, general audience.

In a Q&A, pediatric infectious disease specialist Marietta Vazquez explains why we’re seeing an uptick in measles cases — and what can be done about it.

In a new study, Yale researchers found that hot temperatures and extreme precipitation are probably increasing the prevalence of malaria in parts of Africa.

Yildirim, a member of the Yale School of Medicine faculty since 2020, is a globally recognized expert in vaccinology and infectious diseases among high-risk populations.

Drs. Chantal Vogels and Albert Ko explain how a naturally occurring bacterium called Wolbachia is being used to fight mosquito-borne diseases.

Kasia J. Lipska, MD, from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues compared rates of insulin discontinuation among veterans with T2D receiving basal insulin who initiated treatment with a GLP-1 RA, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2i) or dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP-4i) between 2020 and 2022 in a target trial emulation. Data were included for 8,869 matched sets of GLP-1 RA, SGLT2i and DPP-4i initiators.

Amy Kristine Bei, PhD, an affiliate of the Yale Institute of Global Health, received a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship for Senegal for 2026-2027.

Yale School of Medicine (YSM) was awarded a $1.69 million gift from Coefficient Giving to advance the development of an effective parasite vaccine led by Richard “Rick” Bucala, YC ’79, MS ’79, MD, PhD, chief of the Section of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), and professor of pathology and of epidemiology (microbial diseases).

The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) Global Health Spark Award provides up to $10,000 in seed funding biannually to support innovative global health projects led by YIGH-affiliated faculty. Designed to catalyze new collaborations, pilot studies, and community partnerships, the award helps investigators launch projects with the potential to grow into larger, sustainable initiatives that improve health outcomes around the world. This spring, YIGH awarded funding to five faculty-led projects. Projects proposed by Jofesa Martinez, PhD and Melanie Sion, MD received support through YIGH, while projects led by Ninani Kombo, MD, Ghada Elhadari, MBBCh, PhD, and Alice Miller, JD were funded through a partnership with the Yale Office of International Affairs through the Yale and the World Partnership Fund, an initiative designed to strengthen international collaborations that advance research, education, and practice on issues of global significance.