A team of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) physicians and medical professionals trained in disaster response left this morning for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. In addition to providing trauma and surgical expertise, the...
Robert I. White, Jr., M.D. of Yale University will travel to Buenos Aires to pave the way for the first center in Latin America to treat a rare but potentially fatal vascular disorder known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). White is...
On Saturday, March 13, 2010, Yale School of Medicine sent its second mission to Haiti. The focus this time was less on emergency trauma such as crush injuries, and more on the long term medical problems that continue to plague Haiti in the aftermath of...
For the second year, the Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) at Yale University will host senior health leaders from four African nations in a collaborative effort to find solutions to pressing health problems. The conference, “Building Leadership...
On Saturday, June 12th, the first and only hospital and health care administration masters degree program in Africa will celebrate the graduation of its first class at Jimma University in Ethiopia. The pioneering Masters in Hospital and Healthcare...
The program, initiated in 2008 at Jimma University, has already provided 23 senior Ethiopian health care professionals with the necessary leadership skills and management tools to improve the quality of health care for the people of Ethiopia. Eighteen...
Ten guiding principles to strengthen global health strategies and outcomes have been created by a Yale School of Public Health professor and other experts.Health systems strengthening (HSS) is a broad-based approach that addresses underlying causes of...
Today was the final day of the third annual Global Health Leadership Conference at Yale. President Richard C. Levin greeted the 25 international delegates during a luncheon where he presented Ghana’s Vice President John Dramani Mahama with a certificate...
Yale Professor Marcia Inhorn, a leading scholar in the field of medical anthropology, has been named the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in honor of her...
New Haven, Conn. – A recent two-part study, published online in the Lancet, highlights the urgent need for high-income countries and international agencies to contribute towards the funding of interventions to tackle the significant unmet mental health...