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Yale Researchers Receive Donaghue Awards For Work on Global Healthcare, Depression
Jan. 3, 2008
Research projects by two Yale School of Medicine investigators—one studying global healthcare disparities, the other, depression—have been given a boost with five-year, $600,000 awards from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation for Health-Related Research.
The Investigator Awards to Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor in the Division of Global Health at Yale School of Public Health, and Alexander Neumeister, M.D., director of the Molecular Imaging Program in psychiatry, are intended to support particularly promising and highly talented medical researchers holding academic appointments at Connecticut institutions.
Ruger is studying how to reduce disparities in healthcare, specifically among women, adolescents, minorities, and other groups. Her goal is translate her findings into clinical and public health programs that make more efficient use of scarce resources while improving clinical and public health practice.
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contributed by Liza Nanni on 4 January 2008
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