News from around Yale and the World
A team from the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) bested teams from 30 other schools around the world to win the annual Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition, held March 21-23 on the Emory University campus in Atlanta. It's the second time in three years that a team from YIGH has won this prestigious event.
- March 28, 2024
Six student-led ventures have received this year’s Rita Wilson Grant Funds in Support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship from InnovateHealth Yale (IHY).
- March 27, 2024
Meet Ralph Brooks, who helps identify how to optimally deliver lifesaving treatments to individuals who need them.
- March 27, 2024Source: ABC Pacific
The Yale School of Public Health's Ola Tuputupua'e study has followed the same Samoan children over nine years to better understand and prevent childhood obesity in Samoa.
- March 20, 2024
When the Sustainable Health Initiative Venture Development Program launched last fall, the goal was to create opportunities for Yale students interested in global health innovation to come together and learn from each other. Twelve teams make up the program's spring 2024 cohort.
- March 16, 2024Source: Newvision
Dr. Kyabayinze said that the rolling out of this tool will help to decongest health facilities. As such, health workers will see only patients who require urgent care or treatment.
- March 13, 2024
This Spotlight on Teaching focuses on a new program, the Faculty Journal Club, launched in February by the Office of Academic Affairs. This initiative aims to facilitate robust discussions based on advancements in the science of teaching and learning.
- March 10, 2024Source: The Washington Post
Albert Ko, MD, Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health and professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) and of medicine (infectious diseases), discusses Brazil’s dengue fever crisis.
- March 05, 2024
The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for two senior military officials from Russia just days after the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab releases its report on systematic damage to Ukraine’s power generation and transmission facilities.
- March 05, 2024
Yale School of Public Health faculty are collaborating with colleagues at Cambodia’s National Institute of Public Health to establish a Master of Public Health in Health Economics and Financing program in the Southeast Asian country.