This is the official page of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Yale School of Public Health.
The Department of Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is to advance scientific knowledge about the connections between environment and health through:
• Research in the fields of environmental epidemiology, molecular toxicology, exposure science, risk assessment, biomarkers, epigenetics, and gene-environment interactions.
• Education of the next generati
06/13/2022
Congrats Linda!
Congratulations to Prof. Linda Niccolai, who has agreed to join the school’s leadership as associate dean for academic affairs!
Niccolai brings a long history of leadership and dedication to excellence in the student experience.
Read more: m.yale.edu/2527
12/01/2021
Yale experts (opinion): Why we’re better prepared for Omicron The only protections we had a year ago were masks. How far we’ve come.
09/03/2021
Our Thomaidis and Vasiliou study
Raw Wastewater “Leading Indicator” of Future COVID-19 Outbreaks, YSPH Collaborative Study Finds A global team of researchers has found that future COVID-19 outbreaks, variants, hospitalizations and ICU admissions can be reliably predicted by detecting and
03/20/2021
We are ecstatic to welcome two new faculty members with expertise in racism and health in the coming academic year. The announcement is the latest in our Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ broad push to develop interdisciplinary solutions to racism and to promote health equity.
Ijeoma Opara will join us this July and Chelsey Carter will join us July 2022.
Read more: https://m.yale.edu/btz7
11/07/2020
U.S. Shattered Records For New Coronavirus Cases This Week As Hospitalizations Climb The coronavirus continued its relentless spread throughout the country this week. Here's what you need to know about rises in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
10/07/2020
Cancer vaccine induces potent T cell responses — but is it enough? Tumour-associated antigens are an attractive therapeutic target in immuno-oncology. Here, the exploratory analyses of T cell responses and preliminary clinical outcomes of the Lipo-MERIT trial of a melanoma vaccine are discussed in the context of prior efforts to harness the immunogenicity of s...
10/07/2020
How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover Nature News & Comment
09/29/2020
Please join us tonight.
Dark Waters Virtual Discussion with Attorney Rob Bilott and Dr. Linda Birnbaum! Registration for the free screening of Dark Waters is closed but you can still join our amazing panel discussion by registering today!
08/31/2020
Alison Galvani—a modeller whose career has flourished early Alison Galvani experienced tragedy at an early age, losing her mother at 5 years old, which fractured her family life and led to her being sent away from home in San Francisco, CA, USA, to boarding school in the UK. Ever since those difficult early years, she has immersed herself firstly in her educ...
06/09/2020
Public health professor, Dr. Albert Ko Plays a key role as Connecticut recovers from COVID-19 pandemic.
“There is a lot of hard work yet to be done,” said Ko, MD, chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at YSPH.
https://publichealth.yale.edu/news-article/25223/