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Health scientists and clinical care providers have long recognized that health is shaped by far more than healthcare alone. Air and water pollution, transportation, housing, economic opportunity, and other environmental and social factors all influence health, yet efforts to address these issues often occur in isolation. Work led by Yale policy and health researchers, developed with significant contributions from Suzi Ruhl, JD, MPH, co-leader of the Yale Biological Embedding, Global Research & Intervention Network (BEGIN) at YIGH, has now helped shape Connecticut legislation that brings scientists, policymakers, and communities to the same table on these complex challenges.
- September 22, 2026
Dr. James Shepherd, infectious diseases specialist at the Yale School of Medicine, attended a two-day meeting hosted by Johns Hopkins University and Unitaid in Washington, DC, on "Reimagining Academia's Role in Closing Access Gaps Across the R&D-to-Delivery Continuum." The meeting brought together academic researchers, NGOs, the Gates Foundation, NIH, and WHO to discuss building equity of access into global health research from the start, addressing a long-standing pattern in which academic trials in LMICs generate the evidence, while funders control resulting IP, licensing, and pricing, often limiting access to the very treatments and diagnostics these trials help develop.
- September 22, 2026
The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) has selected Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee as the 2026 Hecht Global Health Policy Innovation and Systems Impact Faculty Network Award recipient. Her research will bring together the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and the Khushi Baby Association to test whether deep learning-based AI models for image-based anemia screening can work effectively in field settings, used by accredited social health activists in India for everything from consent and image capture to result interpretation, with algorithms refined in real time.
- September 18, 2026
Explore YIGH student opportunities, including the Case Competition, Leadership in Global Health Fellowship, Sustainable Health Initiative, and U.S. Global Health Policy and Advocacy Study Tour.
- September 17, 2026
Cathedrals and trees are familiar metaphors for institutions meant to outlast their builders. At the Yale School of Public Health’s 2026 State of the School address, Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, offered another: Central Park.
- September 08, 2026Source: Hartford Courant
“When it comes to fitness we are failing,” said Rafael Perez-Escamilla, professor of public health at the Yale School of Public Health.
- August 13, 2026
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
- August 12, 2026
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.
- August 12, 2026Source: Yale News
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.
- July 29, 2026Source: Yale News
In a new study, Yale researchers found that hot temperatures and extreme precipitation are probably increasing the prevalence of malaria in parts of Africa.