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Jeffrey Wickersham, PhD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine) and co-principal investigator Roman Shrestha, PhD, MPH, designed a micro-randomized trial using a just-in-time adaptive intervention to determine whether using an app could reduce HIV-uninfected gay or bisexual men from engaging in high-risk behavior that would put them at risk for HIV transmission.
- November 15, 2024Source: CBS News
Amnesty International says there are weapons from the U.S.-allied UAE and even France in Sudan's civil war, helping fuel the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
- November 08, 2024Source: Yale News
B-1 immune cells can recognize all sorts of viruses, Yale researchers find. Mimicking them may enable a pan-virus treatment that can address many virus types.
- November 07, 2024Source: NPR
DIslodged by COVID early in the pandemic, tuberculosis is once again the infectious disease that takes the most lives each year. And the number of cases set a new record. YSPH's Dr. Luke Davis, an expert on TB and HIV, comments.
- November 06, 2024Source: The Fulcrum
Dr. Yusuf Ransome is an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. This week, the city of Seoul, South Korea, announced it would spend $327 million to fight an epidemic of loneliness in a country where thousands of people die alone every year. In this commentary, Dr. Ransome discusses the importance of addressing social isolation in the U.S.
- November 01, 2024
The Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative, a New York City-based group co-sponsored by the Yale School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, was recently honored with the prestigious 2024 Emery Award by the Hetrick-Martin Institute. The award ceremony took place Oct. 24 at Nordstrom in Midtown Manhattan.
- October 29, 2024Source: Medscape
A recent study by YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves and colleagues used a special program to show the potential of location technology to increase the uptake of HIV treatment in high-risk individuals.
- October 16, 2024
Vaccinating children under five-years-old in endemic mpox regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would significantly reduce the number of deaths in the country, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.
- October 03, 2024
Lenacapavir could be a revolutionary tool for HIV prevention, an interim analysis shows.
- September 23, 2024Source: ContagionLive
In an exclusive email interview with Contagion, Alexandra Savinkina, MSPH, PhD student specializing in the epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, discusses her research on COVID vaccinations in Latin America and the Caribbean.