Pandemic effect

A series of four photoshoots—one dating to 2019; the remainder taken during the pandemic—show the contrast of life on campus.

Their expertise with procedures and tests made Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology faculty indispensable to the development and rollout of reliable, safe, and effective COVID tests. A critical component to public health efforts to combat the pandemic, the tests have become a ubiquitous part of life.

Although the outbreak of SARS-COVID-19 fell heavily on the world in early 2020, researchers and clinicians at Yale School of Medicine acted swiftly to respond to the threat. Some of the school’s leaders discussed lessons they learned from organizing and executing that response.

With the bulk of human science dedicated to understanding COVID-19 and designing a vaccine against it, a normally lengthy process was cut from years to months.

Sanitizing air and surfaces has always been a top priority for doctors and research laboratories. Environmental Health and Safety technicians had a significant if quiet role to play behind the scenes when COVID-19 struck.

Yale School of Medicine students encountered a shifting curriculum and new ways of learning as the school made changes to blunt the impact of COVID-19.

The pandemic changed many aspects of people’s lives, including working at home for an indefinite period of time. Students, faculty, and staff described benefits from the change, while lamenting what had been lost.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Yale affiliates’ preprint service dramatically speeds the availability of medical research.

Faces of the Pandemic is an ongoing portrait photography project documenting the experiences of essential health care workers throughout the pandemic—an unprecedented time for Yale’s medical community, the nation, and the world. It is meant to show appreciation for these individuals and provide..

HIV/AIDS took years to reach the public’s consciousness and had to overcome political and cultural hurdles along the way. An exhibit at the Yale School of Medicine from the Program for Art in Public Spaces highlights Yale’s leading role in raising awareness of the disease.

After nearly three decades guiding students through the Yale School of Medicine and into the next phase of their careers, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy Angoff is stepping down. How she reached the position in the first place is a story all its own.

YSM’s 2021 reunion occurred virtually, honoring the connections that classmates and alumni built over years and decades in spite of the pandemic.

An old strain of mouse virus becomes key for COVID-19 research in Yale School of Medicine's department of comparative medicine.

Yale researchers are studying the systemic failures that make for unequal health care in prisons within and outside the United States.

Christina Chia Price’s ancestors and extended family members work in health care. That network has helped her excel in her chosen field—immunology.

Joanna Radin, a professor of the history of medicine, has written about how people in the past imagined medicine’s life-changing potential.

Former YSM assistant professor of pharmacology David Gortler takes the mission of ensuring drug safety very seriously.

Rohil Malpani and Marley Windham-Herman are recent YSM graduates looking out for opportunities to improve medical devices while practicing medicine at the bench.

In "The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom," Lydia Dugdale, a former professor at YSM and director of Columbia University's Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, talks about ways to confront sickness and death.

A brief letter from Yale Medicine Magazine editor Adrian Bonenberger about the current issue.

News of a deadly new virus spreading in China grabbed world headlines in January 2020, just as Nancy J. Brown, MD, the Jean and David W.

One characteristic of the experience with COVID in 2020 was the spontaneous outpouring of anger and outrage over systemic injustice in the U.S. At YSM, Darin Latimore has been coordinating efforts to achieve equity for all students, staff, faculty, and patients at the institutional level.