News from around Yale and the World

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University (CIRA) has selected Dr. Sunil Parikh, Yale Schools of Public Health and Medicine; Dr. Jennifer Sherr, Yale School of Medicine; and Dr. Roman Ivasiy, Yale School of Medicine, as recipients of the 2025 CIRA Pilot Projects in HIV Research Program, including the CIRA-Yale Institute for Global Health Joint Pilot Award. The awards provide funding for preliminary and feasibility studies that will lead to larger evaluations of novel interventions or implementation strategies. The CIRA-YIGH Joint Pilot Award specifically supports research addressing the syndemics of HIV/AIDS and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

On February 15th, students across Yale participated in the 6th annual YIGH Global Health Case Competition. During the competition, participating students are randomized into multidisciplinary teams. After receiving case materials, teams had two weeks to develop a proposal to address the challenge of climate change and food insecurity in the Ecuadorian Andes. Seven teams presented their proposals to a panel of judges on the day of the competition.

YSPH Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, comments on the importance of vaccines to prevent measles.

On Feb. 28, over 50 faculty members across various disciplines convened for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and Health, hosted by the Yale Planetary Solutions and Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, or YCCCH.

Richard Martinello, MD, professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Yale School of Medicine, says declining vaccination rates may lead to more cases of pneumococcal disease, Haemophilus influenzae type b, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, hepatitis, and rotavirus.

The first Pennsylvania measles case of 2025 has been confirmed. Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH, joined CNN on March 3 to discuss this case and the growing measles outbreak in Texas.

In a new paper in The Lancet Global Health, researchers from Yale School of Medicine and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria present new data on oxygen systems at 2,884 health facilities in 39 low- and middle-income countries. Using this large dataset, the team characterized whether oxygen therapy was reliably available and whether 17 different components of oxygen systems—from oxygen cylinders to mechanical ventilators—were available and functional at primary, secondary, and tertiary-level health facilities in six different geographic regions.

This series explores the broader implications of recent USAID funding cuts. In this story, Dr. Brian Wahl discusses how losing access to DHS data—now being discontinued in many settings—impacts modeling efforts. The loss of this vital resource has significant consequences for tracking global health progress, conducting research, and guiding program planning.

Barred from Sudan during the ongoing civil war, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab try to monitor death and destruction from afar.