The ways our changing physical and social environment have shaped the emergence of infectious diseases around the world was the focus of a talk by Yale epidemiologist Dr. Albert Icksang Ko on Sept. 5 at Yale Center Beijing.
Ko, who is chair of the...
When science writer Harriet A. Washington first set out to study toxins in the environment, she was discouraged from focusing on topics of race and socioeconomic status. After all, recent studies have found that 95% of people have been exposed to and...