Fall Semester 2024

Global Engagement News

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‘Yale @ Climate Week NYC’ highlights international progress, scaling solutions

The four-day event, held in conjunction with the opening of the UN General Assembly, underscores the university’s commitment to contributing to global leadership efforts to address the climate crisis. Yale President Maurie McInnis, Jackson School Dean Jim Levinsohn, and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at the event.

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Blue Center event

Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo delivers keynote speech, ‘Kosova 25 Years After Liberation’

During his visit to Yale, Albin Kurti was greeted by Vice Provost for Global Strategy Steven Wilkinson as he arrived for the event organized by the Jackson School’s Blue Center. His remarks were followed by a moderated audience Q&A session.

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YSPH initiative

Exploring innovative financing solutions to improve ecosystems and public health in Africa

A new pan-African initiative co-led by Yale researchers and supported by a Yale Planetary Solutions grant is exploring approaches to manage ecosystems and improve public health across Africa. A recent workshop was organized by Yale, the Smithsonian, and African stakeholders. Strategies to integrate health, environmental sustainability, and novel financing methods were discussed.

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Image including, from left to right, Chungsoo Kim; Mitsuaki Sawano, JACC executive associate editor; Shu-Xia Li, JACC Statistical Editor; Zhenqiu Lin, JACC Deputy Editor; Huanhuan Yang; Wanrui Wu; Maria Johnson; and Harlan Krumholz, JACC Editor in Chief.

Yale affiliates collaborate to increase global impact and improve cardiovascular health

A dozen Yale affiliates began their terms on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Yale School of Medicine’s Harlan Krumholz will lead an effort that emphasizes collaboration and innovation to forge strategic partnerships globally and generate advancements in cardiology, especially in East Asia.

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Yale Center Beijing and Peking University co-host program to explore interconnections

The ‘One Health’ Economics Summer Program took place in rural Mao County, Sichuan. This week-long interdisciplinary gathering brought together students and scholars from across the globe to focus on the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.

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Jackson School launches Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment

The center’s research will address interrelated issues in the areas of national defense, diplomacy, intelligence, and international economic relations. It will support interdisciplinary teaching and research focused on generating actionable knowledge that contributes to the strategic exercise of statecraft, organizing around problems (and their solutions) and integrating academic scholars and leading policy practitioners.

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Yale IARU meeting

Yale hosts IARU meeting, highlighting innovations in shared global challenges

Yale welcomed leaders from nine universities as it hosted an annual gathering of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), a consortium of research-intensive universities. Over three days, the participants engaged with leading experts at Yale on innovations in key fields.

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Cross-cutting team of Yale economists explore ‘Gender and Growth Gaps’ in new project

Policy-research dialogues organized by the Economic Growth Center in Accra, Ghana and Delhi, India examined why gender gaps in employment opportunities and outcomes persist in countries around the world — and how policy can help close them.

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Jackson Center welcomes nine new Senior Fellows

Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs welcomes nine new Senior Fellows

The newly named Senior Fellows who will teach during the 2024-2025 academic year, join the school’s 14 returning Senior Fellows. They are leading practitioners in various fields of international affairs who teach courses and mentor students.

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Yale Divinity School summer seminar program opens doors worldwide

YDS has launched a new summer program alongside its longstanding international exchange programs which allow students to spend a semester or more studying at partner universities around the world. The new program aims to address obstacles to participation with an abbreviated, two-week summer offering.

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