Project to combat vaccine disinformation builds bridges across Yale schools
The creation of an animated motion graphic public service announcement at Yale involved support from SOM, YSPH, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - March 23, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Can legalizing cannabis curb deaths from opioids?
A new study from Yale SOM uncovers a striking association: the more legal cannabis dispensaries there are in a given county, the fewer opioid overdoses.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - February 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Pharma exports up 12.43% during April-December 2020-21
Replying to a question on FDI, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said that during the last three years, the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) equity inflow increased from USD 44.85 billion in 2017-18 to USD 49.97 billion in 2019-20.
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - February 5, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

The vaccines bring hope — and new questions
Yale SOM ’s Dr. Howard Forman gives an update on the logistical and medical complications of vaccinating a vast population while the virus spreads and mutates.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - February 3, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

How systems thinking can help stop neglected tropical diseases
A new paper by Yale SOM ’s Teresa Chahine argues that philanthropy may not be the best solution to solving complex problems of disease, and offers solutions.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 11, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Did Congress just fix surprise medical billing?
SOM ’s Fiona Scott Morton explains how the recent omnibus spending and COVID relief bill prevents patients from being billed by out-of-network doctors.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - January 5, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Understanding challenges to well-being among Latina farmworkers in rural Idaho using in an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods approach - Curl CL, Meierotto L, Som Castellano RL.
The aim of this study was to identify social, cultural and workplace-related risk factors affecting well-being among Latina farmworkers in rural Idaho. We recruited 70 Latina farmworkers from southwestern Idaho in 2019. We employed an inter-disciplinary,...
Source: SafetyLit - January 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

Swedens prime minister seen at a shopping mall two days after telling the country to stay home during the holidays
Statsminister Stefan Löfven har riktat kritik mot sin minister Morgan Johansson som julshoppade på ett köpcentrum i mellandagarna. Han...
Source: Reuters: Health - December 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Which restrictions prevent COVID-19 deaths, and which make things worse?
A new study by SOM researchers finds that mask mandates and stay-at-home orders all effective at saving lives. Other common measures are often much less so.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 24, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Identifying as team member supports wellness for COVID-19 frontline workers
New research from YSM and SOM finds that for nurses and health care workers, a shared sense of meaning and purpose can reduce stress and burnout.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

What can smartphone location data tell us about the pandemic?
Yale SOM ’s Kevin Williams uses cellphone location data to track retail foot traffic. When COVID-19 slowed commerce, his team pivoted their research to respond.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - November 4, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Hospital desegregation didn ’t improve mortality rate for Black infants
In the 1960s, the government took steps to desegregate hospitals in the South. A study by SOM Dean Kerwin Charles looks at what they did (and didn ' t) achieve.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - October 26, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Perpetrating violence viewed from the perspective of the social sciences: debates and perspectives - Melenotte S.
What drives some people to "perpetrate violence"? Why do others, by contrast, not perpetrate violence, even under the same conditions? Do all violent acts involve a radicalization or a dehumanization and degradation of civil relations between subjects, som...
Source: SafetyLit - October 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Research Methods, Surveillance and Codes, Models Source Type: news

In defense of (mathematical) models
Epidemiological models of COVID-19 ’s fallout have been imperfect, but are essential for good decision making, argues Yale SOM Deputy Dean Edieal Pinker.
Source: Yale Science and Health News - October 13, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Weapons for when bigotry claims science as its ally - Nelson A.
This is a year of reckonings. Chief among them: communities have been forced to face the injustices laid bare by the yawning racial and ethnic disparities in illness and death caused by COVID-19 the world over. Predictably, even the data that shine som...
Source: SafetyLit - September 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

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