News from around Yale and the World

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.

This year, the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine welcomed two visiting physicians from Armenia, Lilit Serobyan, MD, and Vache Buniatyan, MD. The doctors, who are among the first graduates of the Yale Armenian Unified Emergency Medicine Residency Program (YUAEMRP), share their reflections on the program and their visit to New Haven, Connecticut.

Luke Davis, MD, MAS, discusses what health care looks like on the ground globally — from the vantage point of someone who has spent his career at the intersection of two of the leading infectious causes of death worldwide: tuberculosis (TB) and HIV.

The Fund for Physician-Scientist Mentorship at Yale School of Medicine honored two faculty members during the Janeway Society Retreat in May for their work supporting early career physician-scientists and helping to advance their career development.

Steven Schiff, MD, PhD, will serve as the next director for the National Institute of Health’s Fogarty International Center and the NIH Associate Director for International Research.

Yale Emergency Medicine’s influence in shaping the future of emergency medicine was on full display at the 2026 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual Meeting, held this May in Atlanta, Georgia.

INSPIRE’s ability to integrate data across multiple patients and platforms could lead to the development of more targeted, personalized approaches to cancer care.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) don’t break down naturally in the body or environment, and can accumulate over time.

Students in EHS 544, “Climate Equity and Health Policy Methods,” aren’t just producing research, they're co-developing actual legislation with community partners — legislation that has been raised by the Connecticut General Assembly’s Public Health Committee.