Cécile Fromont is an associate professor in the history of art department at Yale University and a member of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS). Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin Amer...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp decline in living standards and rising food insecurity in developing countries across the globe, according to a new study by an international team of economists. The study, published Feb. 5 in the journal Science Advances, pro...

For Sunil Parikh global health work runs in the family. While growing up, he traveled with his parents to rural areas of India and China while his father, who was a cardiologist, tended to those communities with little access to health care. “Those trips had a big impact...

Widespread use of arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh during the 20th century has been called by the World Health Organization the largest mass poisoning in history. A new study co-authored by Yale economist Mark Rosenzweig finds that, in addition to profound health impac...