Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, will also lead a new White House task force dedicated to health equity.
Nunez-Smith, an associate professor of internal medicine, public health, and management at...
On Dec. 2, author and historian Ibram X. Kendi made the case that much of the conventional thinking around racism misses the point. First and foremost, he argued, it is power and policy, and not people, that keep racism firmly entrenched in society....
When Yale researchers began studying cases of COVID-19 among children, they expected that they would find that the disease afflicted Black and Hispanic children at higher rates, just as it had in the adult population.
It turns out the unequal burden borne...
When Whitney Bowen ’24 decided to take a break from classes at Yale earlier this year due to the COVID-19 crisis, she knew she’d miss many parts of life on campus.
Back at home in Virginia, she found chances to learn new skills virtually, and even became...
When it became clear that many Yale graduate students wouldn’t be traveling home during Thanksgiving holiday to minimize the risk of spreading the coronavirus, leaders of the Yale Graduate Student Association (GSA) decided to bring the holiday to them —...
Yale Hospitality has Thanksgiving plans: With more than 150 students remaining on campus during the holiday break, the unit that runs the university’s dining halls will provide pre-packaged traditional Thanksgiving dinners.
Yale Hospitality also will help...
Five years ago, a Yale-led partnership launched a landmark study to identify the biomarkers, or biological indictors, of autism that could help diagnose, track, and assess treatments in patients.
Since then, the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical...
Yale’s Saad Omer has devoted his career to studying the spread of respiratory diseases like influenza and SARS CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, and how society can increase vaccination rates.
In an interview with YaleNews, Omer, a professor at Yale School of...
When Yale’s Howard Forman started rating colleges’ online COVID dashboards on Twitter this past September, he imagined it would remain a personal, ad-hoc exercise. Forman, a professor at the School of Public Health and School of Management, often uses the...