Nearly everyone has been pestered by a housefly — a dilemma easily solved with the quick deployment of a flyswatter. However, not all species of flies are so harmless or so easily dispatched.
In sub-Saharan Africa there is a vastly different, much more...
In 2014, the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone suffered the most severe outbreak of Ebola ever known. By the time the epidemic was contained in 2016, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates there were nearly 29,000 cases...
Ann Kurth, dean of Yale’s School of Nursing, wants you to understand the vital importance of nurses and midwives to healthcare systems around the globe, including in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions.
“Nurses run hospitals. They run entire...
Since its founding in 2011, Yale-NUS College has worked to provide global learning opportunities for students while seeking to introduce them to diverse intellectual traditions and cultures. Kathryn Bell, a program director from the Yale Center for...
A half-dozen Yale students and faculty members recently met on campus with Dr. Bernice Dahn, the former Liberian Minister of Health, to discuss implementation recommendations by Yale student capstone groups to improve healthcare in the West African nation...
President Peter Salovey spoke on behalf of all international universities at a ceremony in Beijing on May 4, celebrating the 120th anniversary of China’s Peking University (PKU).
Founded as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898, Peking University is...
This week and next, 23 Chinese university leaders are on campus to participate in the Advanced University Leadership Program.
The program, established in 2004 in close partnership with China’s Ministry of Education, provides an opportunity for Chinese...
Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS), a flagship program of the Yale Africa Initiative, held sessions in Kigali, Rwanda July 29-Aug. 7, and in Accra, Ghana Aug. 11-20.
This year, the program, which aims to make higher education more accessible to Africa’s...
Former South African president Nelson Mandela once emphasized that the war against AIDS could not be won without confronting the country’s tuberculosis epidemic. For the last 16 years, a group of Yale researchers in the Yale AIDS Program has been doing...
