Congratulations! You have completed the first year of your studies, and you will be remembered in the history of the Yale School of Public Health as the inaugural class of the Executive MPH program. The school has a long and distinguished history, and now you have added a new chapter, one that combines the academic excellence our school is known for with the technology to expand its offerings and reach.
Martin Klein, MPH, PhD
In your first year, you have taken courses in biostatistics and epidemiology, the language of public health, and learned about the challenges and promise of changing health behavior. You’ve also been instructed on how health policy is formed, by whom and to what ends. Our course on Frontiers of Public Health has given you a firm grounding in public health’s past, current successes and opportunities, and the promise of the future. When you complete the third intensive and the last communications workshop in June, along with the course you have taken on using evidence to drive decision-making, you will have completed the program’s management and leadership component. I wish you a well-deserved break from your studies and look forward to seeing you in June.
Laurie Graham - M.P.H. ’12
Lecturer, Yale School of Public Health
Course: Leading Health Care Transformation
Faculty profile
Laurie Graham, M.P.H. ’12, works at the intersection of health care technology, business and public health. She has more than a decade of experience in strategy consulting for national health plans and state governments. Her experience ranges from “on the ground” implementation of value-based payment to setting a vision for market transformation through strategic partnerships...
The Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH) is a global resource hub that connects Yale’s expertise and knowledge with partners around the world to speed the translation of new scientific discoveries into better health for all. With support from the Yale Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing, YIGH works across disciplines to identify and amplify opportunities for innovation.
Why did you choose to attend the Yale School of Public Health’s Executive MPH program?
CB: Yale offered a peerless academic experience coupled with the inviting qualities of warmth and collegiality. Equally, EMPH Director Marty Klein, MPH, PhD, is impressive, enthusiastic and exudes competence. Also, I had a personal...
We invite you to share personal news and professional successes with the rest of our community in the Executive MPH Newsletter. To that end, we have created a new column: Student Accomplishments.
Dr. James Hsing-His Lee recently recorded a public service message urging individuals to stay current on their personal vaccinations to maintain good health and prevent disease. The message was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Also, congratulations to Professor Sam Chandan who recently published his first public health-related paper in a peer-reviewed journal! Sam was the author of a commentary published in the journal Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. The commentary, entitled Development, Cities, and Public Health, arose from a presentation Sam made with several colleagues at a symposium. You can find the complete commentary here.
Student news submissions should be sent to colin.poitras@yale.edu for consideration for publication.
Be Well@YSPH
Here is a little twist to the Resolutions of H.E.A.L.T.H. Happiness, Energy, Attitude, Lifestyle, Take Action and Humor.
A team of Yale-led researchers can now quantify the factors causing changes in DNA that contribute most to cancer growth in most major tumor types. In a paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, the researchers say their new molecular analysis approach brings clarity to a longstanding debate over how much control humans have over developing cancer over time.
Long-term survival after heart attack on the rise, with low-income communities left behind
One of the first national studies to measure long-term patient outcomes following a heart attack has found positive overall trends, but those benefits do not extend to low-income and Black communities, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology.
‘Soda politics’: Yale students explore storytelling and public health
Students in the Yale School of Public Health’s new “Soda Politics” class are learning how storytelling can be an important tool for public health. Led by Neil Baer, a pediatrician with more than 30 years of experience as a writer, producer, and showrunner for several television series, including “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “E.R.,” the class examines how soda became a multibillion-dollar industry and how it has affected public health along the way.
Ezell is an environmental, cultural and spiritual parable derived from living in the foothills of Appalachia, one man among many seeking to make sense of the time, place and condition in which we live...