News from around Yale and the World
An internationally recognized public health leader, investigator, advocate, and clinician-scientist, Ranney will join Yale on July 1.
- January 31, 2023Source: The New York Times
Chinese officials say an onslaught of infections has slowed, and many people seem eager to move on. But fresh flare-ups could bring more illness and deaths.
- January 30, 2023Source: The Washington Post
In response to the covid-19 pandemic, world leaders in November launched a new global Pandemic Fund housed at the World Bank to break the historic pattern of “panic and neglect” regarding global disease outbreaks.
- January 30, 2023Source: Orlando Sentinal
No other country in the world has prohibited gender-affirming care for youth, but the active Medicaid ban in Florida put the United States out of step with international practice. Despite the picture painted by some, in Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom and others, gender-affirming healthcare is available to any adolescent whose clinician recommends it.
- January 27, 2023Source: STAT
When institutions in the United States and other high-income countries embark on collaborations to improve health or the delivery of health care in low-income countries, they do it with the best of intentions. But intentions aren’t good enough. Projects conducted by trainees at schools of medicine, public health, and other health disciplines in high-income countries can often make the problems they set out to address worse.
- January 26, 2023
Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose work has been foundational in two fields of study she coined and developed – critical race theory and intersectionality – will be presented with the C.-E.A. Winslow Medal, the Yale School of Public Health’s highest honor, at a ceremony Feb. 3 at Harkness Auditorium.
- January 26, 2023Source: YaleNews
Two Yale labs will lead projects, in collaboration with other leading universities, tasked with developing new approaches to understand and combat pathogens.
- January 25, 2023Source: The Washington Post
New CDC data shows updated boosters are cutting risk of getting sick from covid-19 by about half
- January 25, 2023Source: NPR
15 wishes for 2023: Trailblazers tell how they'd make life on Earth a bit better
- January 25, 2023Source: Axios
An FDA advisory panel meeting tomorrow could start a reset of how the U.S. approaches its COVID-19 vaccine strategy.