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Diversity: REACH Is Accepting Applications for Its Training Program

Mon, 11/25/2019
REACH (Recognizing and Eliminating disparities in Addiction through Culturally-informed Healthcare) is seeking applicants for its second training program. REACH is a five-year initiative funded by SAMHSA to cultivate leaders in the Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine fields and to increase...

Yale Researchers Contribute to Landmark Report on Health and Climate Change

Fri, 11/15/2019
Climate change is already damaging the health of the world’s children and threatens the wellbeing of an entire generation unless the world meets Paris Agreement targets to limit global warming to well below 2°C, according to a major new report co-authored by scientists from the Yale School of...

Dean Co-authors Paper on the Public Health Crisis of Underimmunization

Thu, 11/07/2019
Dean Ann Kurth ’90 MSN, PhD, CNM, MPH, FAAN recently coauthored the paper “The Public Health Crisis of Underimmunization: A Global Plan of Action”in the United Kingdom journal “The Lancet.”  In summary, the piece concludes that vaccination is one of public health’s greatest achievements,...

Congratulations to Living Legend Linda Schwartz

Thu, 10/24/2019
Congratulations to Linda Schwartz ’84 MSN, ’98 DrPH, RN, FAAN, who is being celebrated as a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing this year. “Linda’s humility, persistence, good humor, and dedication to the country, to veterans, and the profession are exemplary,” said Dean Ann Kurth ’90...

Nancy Schmieder Redeker has been awarded NIH funding to address the need for studies of factors that contribute to cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Heart Failure

Wed, 10/23/2019
Nancy Schmieder Redeker, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN has been awarded NIH funding to address the need for studies of factors that contribute to cognitive impairment and dementia in people with Heart Failure, a group at high risk for cognitive impairment.  This is aligned with the NIH focus on addressing...