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Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences) Nicole Deziel and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) Amy Bei recently participated in the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Emerging Leaders Forum in Washington D.C.

Several YSPH students recently joined other young people at a youth forum where they worked together to find solutions to the challenges facing today’s youth.

A tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach comes amid a national rise in cases. YSPH's Dr. Luke Davis shares his insights in this report.

The threat of invasion darkens the daily struggle for life in El Fasher, the main city in Sudan’s western Darfur region and the last major urban center still under the army’s control. Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale’s School of Public Health, calls the current situation "a kill box."

In a span of three weeks, Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, was named to two prestigious Time100 lists. The first, published on April 17, named the world's 100 most influential people. The second, on May 2, specified the most influential people in health.

One of the largest multiomics analyses to date examines hallmarks associated with COVID-19 severity and mortality, and how these factors interact with one another.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Liz Znamierowski runs the Mother and Infant Mobile Clinic based out of the storefront at 270 Congress Avenue. Launched by Dr. Leslie Sude in 2020, the Mother and Infant program brought care to mothers and newborns in New Haven during the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed that there was enough community need to continue its services beyond the pandemic. In partnership with American Medical Response, the Mother and Infant Mobile Clinic utilizes a retrofitted ambulance to provide dyadic healthcare curbside to patients’ residences.

Some 800,000 people inside Al-Fashir city have no escape route from incoming attacks by the Rapid Support Forces' Janjaweed as violence in Sudan spreads. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, has been closely monitoring the situation.

Mosquito control agencies in Southern California are desperate to tamp down an invasive mosquito — called Aedes aegypti — that has exploded in recent years. YSPH Associate Professor Nathan Grubaugh provides insight.