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The Office of Health Equity Research (OHER) is pleased to announce the recipients and finalists of the 2024 OHER Awards for Yale Research Excellence.
- November 21, 2024
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine, in conjunction with Equitable Breakthroughs in Medicine, a multi-institute collaboration focused on clinical trial diversity, have published a Site Maturity Assessment Model in the journal Trials. The model is designed to support clinical trial sites to identify opportunities for growth and to enrich diversity.
- October 22, 2024
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, racial outcome disparities emerged. In the first year, for example, Black and Hispanic patients were far likelier to die than white patients were. Yet a bright spot occurred at Yale. Not only was the mortality rate throughout Yale New Haven Health in the pandemic’s first two years lower than the national average, but also no race-based survival differences occurred among discharged patients.
- October 01, 2024
The Connecticut Health Foundation has convened an advisory committee to help inform the creation of a blueprint for maternal health equity in Connecticut, focused on Black patients. The Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative and the Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) will help facilitate the work.
- September 17, 2024Source: The Associated Press
At a summit on September 18, 2024, leaders from across Yale School of Medicine will present strategies for improving health equity that they developed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- April 24, 2024
Yale School of Medicine and Equitable Breakthroughs in Medicine Development (EQBMED) — a multi-institute collaboration focused on clinical trial diversity — announced today a new partnership with 14 community and faith-based organizations and professional societies, furthering its mission to foster equitable access to clinical trials.
- April 03, 2024
The Role of Data in Public Health Equality and Innovation Conference, bringing together a global and diverse group of leaders from academia, government, health care, and private industry, takes place at Yale April 8-9.
- March 20, 2024
Marcella Nunez-Smith is laser-focused on eliminating inequities among marginalized people.
- January 31, 2024
The Office of Health Equity Research (OHER) is pleased to announce the 2023 OHER Awards for Yale Research Excellence recipients and finalists.
- January 01, 2024
The Office of Health Equity Research (OHER) is excited to announce it has awarded funds to address pediatric asthma disparities in New Haven to a coalition of community and academic partners through its Community Health Equity Accelerator initiative. A partner team comprised of the Hispanic Federation Inc. of Connecticut, Center for Children’s Advocacy (CCA), and faculty from the Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Sections of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, Immunology and Sleep Medicine will receive a pilot award of $150,000 to develop and implement a multilevel community-based intervention.