Welcome to the first issue of the online Executive MPH newsletter. Created for you, I hope this newsletter will deepen your engagement with the school, provide useful information, and serve as one more way we can communicate with each other.
Martin Klein, MPH, PhD
Each issue will feature a brief note from me and tailored information that we hope you will find both interesting and useful. Short profiles of program faculty members will explain their work in deeper detail and highlight their fields of study...
Gary Ginsberg - Clinical Professor, Environmental Health Sciences; Course: Risk Assessment and Policy
Faculty profile
Dr. Gary Ginsberg, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Environmental Health for the New York State Department of Health. He has served on a number of national panels and committees including the National Academy of Sciences’ panels on biomonitoring, U.S. EPA risk methods, arsenic, crystalline silica, and he currently serves on the Academy's Emerging Science committee...
The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (YCCCH) is an academic leader in understanding the impact of climate change on health. It is dedicated to educating students and professionals, and utilizing public health science to support governmental and civil society efforts to mitigate climate change and to achieve climate justice...
Yale Alumni Network, Outstanding Faculty Draws Public Health Officer to Executive MPH Program
Lt. Cmdr. Edwige Djassa is a board-certified family nurse practitioner (FNP) and Lieutenant Commander (active duty) Commissioned Corps Officer of the U.S. Public Health Service. She is currently stationed in Phoenix, Arizona where she practices as a FNP in a primary care clinic. She has been serving Native American/Alaska Native patients for the past 10 years in Arizona and its surrounding reservations...
Responding to Omicron: Aggressively increasing booster vaccinations now could prevent many hospitalizations and deaths
Immediately doubling the December pace of boosters to 1.5 million per day could prevent approximately 41,000 deaths, according to a new study by YSPH Professor Alison Galvani and colleagues...
Ozone exposure linked to cognitive decline in older adults, YSPH study finds
A new, large-scale study led by scientists at the Yale School of Public Health has established a robust link between long-term ozone exposure and an increased risk of cognitive impairment in older adults...