International researchers, medical practitioners, policy makers and others who have been on the “frontlines” of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic will share their experiences in a workshop held Sept. 19 to 21 at Yale University....
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale announces the following week of events to commemorate World AIDS Day: Monday, Dec. 1Topic: “AIDS in China: Lessons Learned” Speaker: Wan Yanhai, Yale World Fellow, Chinese AIDS Activist...
The Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS) will host a conference titled “Health Crisis in South Asia: Socioeconomic and Opportunistic Disease Consequences of AIDS” at the Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, on February 18–...
New Haven, Conn. — Those who most need medical care in Korea but can afford it least spend a greater percentage of their income on health services, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published in the American Journal of Public Health. “Low-...
Researchers at Yale’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and staff of the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative recently published and released a document for Ethiopia’s hospitals that is designed to improve their management capacity.The...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology & Public Health recently traveled to Ethiopia to award healthcare managers and workers with a Yale certificate for completing a year-long program that featured extensive training and...
Leading researchers in Switzerland, France, Mexico, and at Yale School of Medicine, are pooling efforts under a five-year, $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to pinpoint the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. Hypertension affects more than...
Unite for Sight, a non-profit organization founded by a Yale student that provides eye care to medically underserved people around the globe, will hold its fifth annual International Health Conference on April 12 and 13, at Yale.The conference will bring...
When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
With the help of a 35-foot donated van, Dr. Fred Okuku is about to bring breast cancer screening home to Uganda.Okuku is a third-year resident in internal medicine at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. He visited Yale for six months this year because...