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Mobile Lab Helps Yale Pathology Establish Relationships, Build Trust With Community
A mobile laboratory-in-a-van that brings testing services to underserved Connecticut neighborhoods is enabling Yale Pathology of Yale School of Medicine to establish relationships and build trust with community organizations.
12 Jul 2024
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American Cancer Society Backs Hispanic Breast Cancer Program
Monica G. Valero, MD, assistant professor of surgery (oncology) and director of the Hispanic Breast Cancer Program, has received a prestigious one-year pilot grant from the American Cancer Society (ACS) to advance breast cancer care among the Hispanic population. The prestigious award affirms the Department of Surgery’s commitment to tackling health inequities on a national scale and locally.
28 Feb 2024
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Exploring Transgender People’s Experiences With Health Care
A new study published in Annals of Family Medicine explores encounters between 30 transgender people and their health care clinicians.
26 Sep 2023
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Yale Study Documents Staggering Toll of Health Disparities for Black Americans
A new study reveals a staggering disparity in life expectancy between Black Americans and their white counterparts between 1999 and 2020.
16 May 2023
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Tackling Disparities in Oncology Requires Action as Well as Research
In this interview, Dr. Andrea Silber discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated disparities that already existed within oncology care, and she said the effects of these disparities on patients are very real and direct.
Source: Pharmacy Times
23 Sep 2021
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Marcella Nunez-Smith Named Associate Dean for Health Equity Research
Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, has been appointed the inaugural associate dean for health equity research. She will oversee the coordination and support of health equity research at Yale School of Medicine.
14 Aug 2020
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Breast cancer care in U.S. territories lags behind care in states
Older women residing in the U.S territories are less likely to receive recommended or timely care for breast cancer compared with similar women residing in the continental United States, according to Yale researchers. Their findings were published in the March issue of Health Affairs.
4 Mar 2018
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Yale Cancer Center receives $1 million grant to address cancer disparities
Researchers at Yale Cancer Center (YCC) have been awarded a $1 million grant by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation (BSMF) to address health care disparities in cancer care and support. The grant will fund the Cancer Disparities Firewall project, a multilevel intervention that focuses on patient and system level factors that contribute to cancer disparities in the YCC/New Haven, Connecticut area. The project will target lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer.
21 Jan 2018
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Yale Study: Minority Breast Cancer Patients Less Likely To Have Genetic Test
A genetic test that helps doctors determine how best to treat breast cancer—and whether chemotherapy is likely to help—is significantly more likely to be administered to white women than blacks or Hispanics, a Yale study has found.
Source: Connecticut Health I-Team
31 May 2017
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Racial Disparities in Genetic Testing of Women With Breast Cancer
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Cary P. Gross, MD Section of General Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Prior work has demonstrated racial and socioeconomic disparities in breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. As the oncology field has progressed over the past decade, the use of genetic testing to guide treatment decisions is one of the most exciting new developments.
Source: Medical Research
16 Mar 2017
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Yale Study Published in JNCCN Uncovers Racial Disparities in Treatment of Women with Breast Cancer
In a simple definition, cancer is a disease of the cells, which is caused by gene mutations. For a proportion of patients, including women with hormone receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer, gene expression profiling has a substantial impact on treatment decision-making by determining which patients might—or might not—respond to particular treatment options.
15 Mar 2017
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Understanding Breast Cancer Disparities in the United States
At a recent Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds lecture, Dr. Beth Jones, Research Scientist, Epidemiology and Public Health, discussed the disparities that exist in breast cancer in the United States, focusing mainly on Hispanic and Latino women. By the year 2050 Hispanic/Latinos will represent close to 1/3 of the U.S. population.
28 Feb 2010
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$20M community-driven research funding aims to reduce inequities, improve health outcomes
The American Heart Association and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are funding 4 teams of scientists and community leaders to engage historically underrepresented communities in research to improve health, including one team led by Yale School of Medicine and Public Health Professor Emily Wang.
Source: American Heart Association
22 Aug 2024
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Study finds the LGBTQI+ population have less access to health care, worse health outcomes, less insurance
Members of the LGBTQI+ population experience less access to health care, worse health outcomes, and higher rates of uninsurance than their counterparts, research has shown. To expand coverage and address health care disparities affecting LGBTQI+ populations, some U.S. lawmakers have proposed lowering the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 60.
Source: Medical Xpress
13 Aug 2024
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For some Black, Latino, and Asian people, summers are hotter
Black and Latino people, and some Asian populations, consistently experience hotter warm seasons than non-Hispanic white people living in the same county of the U.S., according to a new YSPH study. 
30 Jul 2024
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Terika McCall recognized for inclusive digital health tools
McCall designs digital health tools that have the potential to reduce health inequities by facilitating connections to health and social services.
25 Jun 2024
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Chima Ndumele: Reinventing Medicaid
Yale Professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Associate Professor Chima Ndumele of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss his research on structural changes to Medicaid that could keep vulnerable populations healthier.
Source: Yale Insights: Health & Veritas
23 May 2024
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Pandemic proved to be a revelatory time for PhD student
If you think writing a dissertation is hard, try doing it during a pandemic. Shannon Whittaker, who is graduating from the Yale School of Public Health this spring with a PhD in social and behavioral sciences and public health, started her dissertation while COVID-19 had shut down most of the world. She calls it the most revelatory point of her time at YSPH. It was as much a self-revelation as a scholarly one.
6 May 2024
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For YSPH graduate, community engagement as important as class work
Graduation is a time when most students are deciding where to go after receiving their diplomas. Sophie E. Edelstein, however, is staying right where she is – in New Haven, where she was born and raised.
6 May 2024
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Examining research on socioeconomic health disparities across Michigan
YSPH Associate Professor Xi Chen recently spoke with The Michigan Daily about his research paper, “Something in the pipe: The Flint water crisis and health at birth.”
Source: The Michigan Daily
24 Apr 2024