As Yale students, you have access to the broader Yale community as well as to current students and faculty. I encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities, as time permits. To that end, I share some resources.
Martin Klein, MPH, PhD
YaleCONNECT lists over 1,200 Yale groups, by category. Explore and find ones that fit your interests. Cross Campus is an online networking, community building, and mentoring program. It allows you to connect to Yale alumni based on topic, industry, location, and more. Membership is free for life. Some of you will soon become alumni and a number of additional resources will be available to you. For current students, know that these opportunities await.
There are over 100 interest groups, spanning areas from health to veterans’ issues. While designed for Yale alumni, you can see what opportunities are available to help you connect with members while you are still a student. Here is a list of groups.
There are Yale clubs all over the country and the world. You are in a unique position in that, although you are students, many of you live in cities that have, or are near a Yale club. Many welcome students.
As alumni, you will be able to take advantage of many offerings through our alumni office, including career networking, lifelong learning, and our alumni engagement program.
Yale is a both a global university and a home for each and every student and alumnus. I hope this brief overview of ways to connect and feel involved will help you make the most of your time at Yale and create a foundation for your relationship to the school, the university, and all alumni.
Martin Klein, MPH, PhD
Director, Yale Executive MPH Program
Laura Bothwell, PhD, MPhil, MA
Faculty profile
Laura Bothwell, PhD, MPhil, MA, is an ethicist and historian of public health. Her research examines social, historical, and ethical dimensions of epidemiology with a particular focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Her work examines how international and national policies have influenced trial rigor and ethics, protections of vulnerable trial subjects, and participant diversity in RCTs. She also does work at the intersection of climate change, epidemiology, and ethics.
Mathematical and statistical modeling offers a useful lens through which to understand and improve pressing health problems at the population level. Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is a leader in the use of public health modeling to inform health systems, policy making, design and implementation of interventions, and assessments of disease burden and impact.
Why did you choose to attend the Yale School of Public Health’s Executive MPH program?
I was drawn to the Yale School of Public Health’s Executive Online MPH program because of the concentrations offered and I really like how leadership is incorporated into the curriculum. For example, the on-campus intensives focused on design thinking and managing in complex organizations is both valuable from an educational perspective and unique.
Sam Chandan, PhD, EMPH ’23, at the Broad Street pump in London, famous as the source of contaminated water during the 1854 cholera outbreak.
Sam Chandan, PhD, EMPH ’23, a professor at NYU Stern, sent this photograph of himself at the Broad Street pump in London. Physician John Snow famously identified the Broad Street pump as a source of contaminated water during a severe outbreak of cholera in 1854 that killed 616 people. The outbreak is remembered for Snow’s hypothesis that germ-contaminated water was the source of cholera. Chandan is director of the NYU Stern Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance as well as a professor in NYU Stern’s finance department.
Nathan Earl, EMPH ’24, co-authored the paper, "Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Males: A Pilot Training with Law Enforcement," in the journal Criminal Justice Studies. The paper was a deliverable of Earl’s work with Kristi House, a children’s advocacy center in Miami, Fla. The paper “highlights the importance of education and training for law enforcement, as many have not received any,” Earl explained. “Early identification is key to recovery and resource provision for males impacted by commercialized sexual violence trafficking.
“At Kristi House, we are committed to measuring and analyzing our work to enable us to evaluate outcomes and share what we learn within the field. We are proud to have distinguished research partners at Florida International University and the University of Miami who guide this work and enable the dissemination of our findings through peer-reviewed journals,” Earl added.
Ronaldo Verian, EMPH ’23, is the incoming president of the University of Santo Tomas Nurses Association International, Inc (USTNAI). The USTNAI plans to conduct “Alay ng Puso sa Siquijor,” (Gift from the Heart to Siquijor), a medical, surgical, dental, and humanitarian outreach mission. Verian will lead a team of physicians, nurses, dentists, and volunteers and assure the success of the mission. The goal is to provide free medical, dental, and surgical consultation and treatment as well as cataract screening and surgery to the underprivileged communities of the island of Siquijor, Philippines. The group also plans to construct a toilet for students with disabilities at the Siquijor Integrated School.
During the wildfires south of Portland, Oregon, in September 2020, Dr. Leah Werner, EMPH ’24, cared for patients with respiratory ailments, as well as her son who has asthma. “Watching firsthand the impact of climate change on my community has inspired me to action,” Werner said. Werner, an assistant professor of family medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, told her local news that children are not yet adept at thermoregulation, leaving them vulnerable to health issues due to climate change.
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YSPH Alumna Kate Walsh to lead as new HHS secretary in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has tapped Kathleen Elizabeth Walsh, MPH ’79 (hospital administration), a Yale University trustee and president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, to be that state’s new secretary of health and human services.
Townsend Lab Develops Software to Analyze Somatic Driver Variants
A new open-source software package called cancereffectsizeR, developed by the Townsend Lab greatly improves the ability of data scientists and clinical analysts to pinpoint specific genetic mutations that drive cancer.
Vassar College president and Yale alumna Elizabeth Bradley receives 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for her leading scholarship in public health
Vassar College president and Yale alumna Elizabeth “Betsy” Bradley, PhD '96, has been awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for her leading scholarship in public health and her unwavering commitment to the health and well-being of local and global communities.
Prominent law professor and civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, whose work has been foundational in two fields of study she coined and developed – critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality – is the latest recipient of the C.-E.A. Winslow Medal, Yale School of Public Health’s highest honor.
Kickstart this year's Startup Yale season and join a virtual conversation with YSPH alum Leslie Asanga, founder and CEO of Pills2Me and Co-Founder of UrPharm, about using technology to increase access to healthcare in vulnerable populations and communities.
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health Spring 2023 Seminar Series
Join the YCCCH for a talk by Dr. Susan Anenberg on "Climate change, air pollution, and public health: Bridging science to policy," in person or via Zoom. Anenberg is associate professor of environmental and occupational health and of global health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, and director of the GW Climate and Health Institute.