📣We will be accepting donations from now until *August 1, 2026* to support the Back to School Drive for Maverley Primary & Infant School in Kingston, Jamaica! The wish list of items needed inclues backpacks and shoes🎒👟Thank you in advance for supporting the kids at Maverley 🙏🏾 🔗 tinyurl.com/mpisdrive

✨We will be off Friday, June 19th in celebration of Juneteenth! 🔗 Learn more: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

✨CHIL caps are in just in time for summer! 🧢🤙🏾

✨Happy #Pride! At CHIL we celebrate love and the freedom to be unapologetically you! 🏳️‍🌈

✨Come check out what the team has been working on. Congratulations to Kayla Chanel Hightower, M.S., Wisdom Dayok, Holly Tomlin, JM, MPH, and Kudrat Kadelu on their upcoming presentations!👏🏾🎉

✨SEEN Lab member Alvaro Granados stopped by the lab today to test out their new SEEN Tool prototype on the test phones in preparation for the #SEENTogether event at Dixwell Avenue Congregational UCC this weekend.

✨Amazing news to start the week. Congratulations Kayla Hightower, Wisdom Dayok, Kudrat Kadelu, Shannon Dhindsa, Mary Peng, and Holly Tomlin on poster acceptances for the @amia.org 2026 Annual Symposium! 🎉

✨I’m honored to be a 2026 @aspenideas.bsky.social Health Fellow! Looking forward to learning from today’s big thinkers in health – and bringing ideas from @yalesph.bsky.social to the conversations. #AspenIdeasHealth #AspenIdeasHealth2026 💡🏔️

Earth Day is a day to reflect on the importance of protecting the environment. 🌎🌳🌊 #publichealth #earthday

✨We had a great time and learned so much at the Yale Healthcare Conference today! Thank you to the conference organizers for a wonderful program. ⚕️🩺❤️ Wisdom Dayok, Kayla Chanel Hightower, @telementalhlth.bsky.social

✨CHIL members Amanda and Wisdom led high school students in our DiscoTech sessions to learn how to design digital health tools as part of Public Health Day at @yalesph.bsky.social. The students decided to focus on health issues such as stress management, lead poisoning, and substance use prevention.

✨You’re invited to attend my Journey Lecture on Monday, April 13th as I reflect on the choices, challenges, and opportunities that shaped my career! Hybrid Event • Register to Attend! Monday, April 13th, 2026 • 3-4PM 🔗: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

✨Our lab went down to NYC for The Check Up with Google. It was amazing to see what they have been working on since last year. Some promising tech to improve patient-provider communication and health literacy.

At #SXSWEDU 2026, we hosted a panel called Pride + Resilience: LGBTQ+ Young People in Online Spaces, grounded in research and shaped by 1,200+ LGBTQ+ young people. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧑‍💻 Explore our report with Hopelab on LGBTQ+ young people in online spaces: hopelab.org/stories/with...

✨Takeaways from the #SXSWEDU paneI…I talked about how Black LGBTQ+ youth interact online. How they provide support. How they receive support. The positive benefits, as well as what support is missing from online communities. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

✨We can’t wait for The Check Up with Google this year. Lab field trip 🤓✌🏾

✨For International Women’s Day, we want to take the time to celebrate the amazing CHIL women! Thank you for bringing your brilliance, boldness, and love for the community to our team!💞

✨Congratulations to CHIL members Kayla Chanel Hightower and Wisdom Dayok on your poster acceptance for APA!! 🎉

✨Have a great Spring Break! 🧘‍♀️😴

✨We are excited to continue our collaboration with the JADE Lab (PI: Dr. Karen Wang) for the Welcome Home app. The Welcome Home app was designed to support justice-impacted individuals as they transition from carceral settings to communities. Now moving into development. Onward. 😁

✨Happy Lunar New Year!!

✨Happy Valentine’s Day Weekend!! xoxo💕

✨Heading to #SXSWEDU 2026? Be sure to check out our session PRIDE + RESILIENCE: LGBTQ+ Young People In Online Spaces

Celebrating 💯 Years of Black History! 🖤❤️💛💚

✨Welcome Back! Wishing you a great start to the semester 📚

✨ We had a great time hanging out at the rock climbing gym today! Thankful for our team. #Y5 🧗🏽‍♀️🙏🏾

✨ School will be starting soon and we want to restock the school’s canteen to supply the children with breakfast and lunch again.🇯🇲

✨We are off until January 5th. Have a Happy New Year🎉

Have a safe and happy holiday! ❄️

✨Blessed to celebrate another birthday with my family and friends today. #Chapter42 🎉🎂✨ Birthday request: Donate to Food for the Poor Jamaica 🇯🇲 foodforthepoorja.org Thank you 🙏🏾

✨Thank you to everyone that supported our work this year! We are looking forward to an amazing 2026!✨

"As a public health student... I’ve heard the same message in almost every class: progress isn’t real progress unless everyone moves forward. On World AIDS Day, I’m reminded of how far that ideal is from reality." - Nikki Tehrani, MPH '27, in a CT Mirror opinion piece

✨Wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving 🧡

✨Happy Halloween 🎃

💡How to Apply: Application information is available at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (gsas.yale.edu/admissions). GRE is not required.

📣We are recruiting for our Master of Science in Health Informatics program at @yalesph.bsky.social. #PublicHealth #HealthInformatics #Yale 💻: More information about the program: ysph.yale.edu/school-of-pu... 🎥: What is Health Informatics? youtu.be/fpekSZdJHKQ

✨Wishing our students a wonderful and restful Fall Break🍂

✨October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. “With Survivors, Always."

✨This is an amazing opportunity to learn more about health informatics and make connections. Please apply and share with others.

✨We are thankful to have our interns continuing with the lab for the ‘25-‘26 school year! It has been awesome to have them as part of the team ☺️

ERIC team shows up!

✨Welcome to the team Dr. Malvika Pillai! Dr. Pillai is a biomedical informaticist with a strong foundation in machine and deep learning, data science, and natural language processing methods.