Since the founding of its nursing school in 1923 — the first independent professional nursing school in the country — Yale has been a leader in research and practice centered on human well-being.
In New Haven, Yale operates programs like the food pharmacy for residents and families without access to healthy food and the Transitions Clinic-New Haven which extends care to those returning to the community from incarceration.
Yale researchers work at all scales related to healthcare, from the engineering of synthetic tissue to the use of smartwatches for diagnosing psychiatric disorders, to generating finer information about how wildfire smoke affects populations.
Yale’s efforts span place and discipline to lead in the multidimensional opportunity to improve human health and wellbeing.
