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Yale School of Public Health Dean Sten Vermund
07/09/19

Yale-India business accelerator to promote innovative health solutions

Five early stage startups building innovative solutions in healthcare have been chosen as the first participants in the Sustainable Health Initiative (SHI), a business accelerator established earlier this year by a partnership between the Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH...
07/08/19

2019 Yale Young African Scholars program kicks off

On July 25, the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program kicks off its 2019 season with sessions in Accra, Ghana; Harare, Zimbabwe; and, for the first time, in Nairobi, Kenya. YYAS brings together African secondary school students for a cost-free, seven-day residential prog...
Participants at Yale Center Beijing on June 26
06/28/19

The art of light: Yale Center Beijing hosts intercultural dialogue on theater

“Theater is the art of light,” said Yale professor Yuri Kordonsky during a recent discussion at Yale Center in Beijing. On the evening of June 26, over 80 participants gathered the center for a dialogue between two renowned theater experts: Kordonsky, professor ...
President Salovey speaks at honorary degree ceremony
06/26/19

Salovey awarded honorary degree by Lithuania's Vytautas Magnus University

On June 20 President Peter Salovey received an honorary degree for his pioneering scholarship on emotional intelligence from Vytautas Magnus University, a leading public university with a focus on the liberal arts, located in Kaunas, Lithuania. Salovey’s trip included m...
Participants in the Yale-China Children's Hospital Executive Leadership Workshop on the steps of the Yale School of Public Health (photo credit: Michael Greenwood)
06/24/19

YSPH Training Programs Draw Dozens of Chinese Health Officials, Practitioners

Yale-China Children's Hospital Clinical Research Workshop participants on the steps of the Yale School of Public Health (photo courtesy of Yawei Zhang).   Two new training programs led by the Yale School of Public Health brought Chinese hospital officials,...
From left: Dena Schulman-Green, Yafa Haron, Shelli Feder, and David Collett have been collaborating on this project for more than three years.
06/19/19

Strengthening Palliative Care in Israel

A health care landscape without palliative and hospice care in the United States is still within living memory. Florence Wald, the fourth dean of YSN, introduced these concepts to Yale and the country in the mid-1960s. Decades later, other nations around the world are also ex...
Left to right: Kefentse Mzwinila ’99 M.A., Botswanan minister of land management, water and sanitation services; Yale President Peter Salovey; President Mokgweetsi Masisi of the Republic of Botswana; Yale Director for Africa Eddie Mandhry.
06/11/19

President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana visits Yale

President Mokgweetsi Masisi of the Republic of Botswana and a delegation including First Lady Neo Jane Masisi visited Yale on June 6 for a series of meetings aimed at developing partnerships that would offer opportunities for research and capacity development in several diff...
Twenty health officials from 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries attend a series of workshops hosted by Yale School of Public Health to be trained in a new statistical method that evaluates the effectiveness of vaccines (photo credit: Kayoko Shioda).
05/28/19

YSPH Experts Train Latin American Health Officials in New Vaccine Analysis

Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor Daniel Weinberger addresses the gathering. Weinberger organized the conference. (Photo credit: Kayoko Shioda). As coordinator of Ecuador’s national immunization program, Yajaira Vásquez applies only the best evid...
Yale University, Office of the President
05/23/19

Yale's steadfast commitment to our international students and scholars

To the Yale Community, In recent weeks, tensions in United States–China relations and increased scrutiny of academic exchanges have added to a sense of unease among many international students and scholars here at Yale and at universities across the country. I write no...
Sari J. Siegel (Photo credit: Mara Lavitt)
05/23/19

Researcher illuminates a Jewish doctor’s Holocaust experiences

Esther F. arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944 — a period when the camp’s crematoriums were operating at full capacity. Esther, a physician, was held for five days before being transported to Guben, a labor camp in Germany where she was assigned to care for...

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