News from around Yale and the World

The Yale Institute for Global Health has selected Nadir Ijaz, MD, MHS; Bernardo Lombo, MD; and Brian Weiss, PhD to receive the Spring 2024 Global Health Spark Award. Each recipient will receive an award of up to $10,000. The Global Health Spark Award aims to provide initial funding to support global health research initiatives and partnerships among YIGH-affiliated faculty.

The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) partnered with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University (CIRA) to launch a new Joint Pilot Call for research on the syndemics of HIV/AIDS and noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in high-burden countries for HIV/AIDS. Two awards of up to $15,000 were provided in the inaugural year of the new partnership.

The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) has selected Nicola Hawley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, to receive the 2024 Hecht Global Health Faculty Network Award. Her project, affiliated with the Yale Network for Global NCDs (NGN), will focus on adapting and pilot testing an intervention designed to promote mental health among adolescents in American Samoa.

Mosquitoes are infecting people across the Americas with dengue at historic levels and U.S. travelers are bringing the potentially life-threatening virus home with them. YSPH infectious disease specialist Dr. Albert Ko is also concerned about climate change increasing the spread of the virus.

This Alumni Spotlight focuses on Helen Moore, MPH '22 (Health Policy), currently the social justice and racial equity policy manager for the Environmental Health Division at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

As the world prepares for the start of the Olympic Games in Paris later this month, it is still unclear whether the city’s iconic Seine River will be clean enough for competitive swimming events. In a new video, Yale’s Jordan Peccia and Vasilis Vasiliou discuss the perennial challenge of pollution that caused officials to ban swimming in the river more than a century ago.

Women’s Health Research at Yale today announced two research awards, one aimed at more effectively treating endometriosis and the second designed to help women who have been incarcerated improve their health outcomes.

In recent years, his work has fused his interests in physics and engineering with novel approaches to tackling global health problems in neurosurgery, such as work in Africa on hydrocephalus, neonatal sepsis, sustainable MRI imaging, childhood brain growth and image analysis, and satellite rainfall analysis.

Professor Anne Alstott of Yale Law School and Dr. Meredithe McNamara of the Yale School of Medicine, the co-founders of The Integrity Project at Yale Law School, have co-authored a report with a team of international scientists that takes an expert, evidence-based approach to discussing key issues at stake in current legal battles to preserve access to health care for transgender youth.