YSN Exceeds Annual Fund Goal for 2019-2020 Campaign
Fri, 07/17/2020
Thank you to the many YSN alumni and friends who helped us exceed our $165,000 goal for the
2019-2020 Annual Fund campaign! These funds will address critical current needs, such as increased financial aid and enhanced resources for teaching and research.
Surpassing our goal wouldn’t have been...
From Engineering to Nursing, Cisco Partnership Yields Face Shields
Wed, 07/15/2020
Yale School of Nursing (YSN) recently received 1,000 injection-molded face shields, the result of a collaboration with Cisco.
John Marshall, Distinguished Engineer and founding member of the Cisco volunteer team, said the partnership with YSN began in the Department of Computer Science. Assistant...
Nelson addresses Anti-black racism, COVID-19 inequities during International Conference
Mon, 07/13/2020
On July 10, YSN Associate Dean for Global Health & Equity Dr. LaRon E. Nelson, PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FAAN participated in a panel during the International AIDS Society COVID-19 Conference, a virtual meeting that also featured Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. During the presentation, “Anti-...
Yale School of Nursing Launches COVID-19 Toolkit Website
Fri, 06/26/2020
Over the past two months, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) has been working to identify resources to support providers in lower-resourced settings during the global COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. The result of those efforts is the COVID-19 Nursing Toolkit.
“By April, it became clear that we...
Nursing Entrepreneurs Launch Online Mental Health Practice to Address COVID-19 Needs
Tue, 06/23/2020
Dr. Pritma Dhillon-Chattha ’18 DNP, MHA, RN and Dr. Brighid A. Gannon ’18 DNP, PMHNP-BC first connected as classmates at YSN in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Dhillon-Chattha owns a cosmetics injectables company among other ventures, and Gannon founded Ivy Psychiatry, a nursing home...
YSN announces its Commitment to Anti-Racism
Thu, 06/18/2020
The Yale School of Nursing has an inspiring aspiration: to improve health for everyone. The system of racism is an enduring threat to achieving this goal, however, and that system must be defeated. We must begin by recognizing, acknowledging, and combating racism within our own school, even as we...
Vlahov Research Traces State Pandemic Response for People Who Use Drugs
Wed, 06/17/2020
David Vlahov, PhD, RN, FAAN, recently published the research paper “A Community Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Protecting the Health and Human Rights of People Who Use Drugs” for the Journal of Urban Healthwith Yale colleagues Robert Heimer, PhD of the School of Public Health...
