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Yale School of Medicine
Fiellin Recognized as Winner at Falling Walls World Science Summit
Lynn E. Fiellin, MD, professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and the Child Study Center; and founder/director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale and the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, was recognized as a Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year winner. More >
Yale School of Medicine
Yale Partners With Connecticut Department of Education to Launch Instructional COVID-19 Website
Tyra Pendergrass, Associate Director of the Yale play2PREVENT Lab, and Lynn Fielliln, MD, Professor of Medicine, partnered with several other members of the Yale School of medicine to create COV-Ed, a learning an online resource tool for educators and students to learn about the challenges of the pandemic. More >
Serious Game Market
3 Healthcare Digital Learning Game Winners Announced in Serious Play’s 2020 Award Competition
play2PREVENT’s game smokeSCREEN won gold in Serious Play’s 2020 Healthcare Digital Learning Game Competition. More >
Schell Games
Schell Games Partners with play2PREVENT to Tackle Opioid Addiction and Prevention
Schell Games and play2PREVENT partner to develop a HEAL funded digital game that will serve as a resource in the fight against youth opioid addiction. Together they will develop an interactive teaching tool that utilizes videogame engagement and incorporates components of effective substance use prevention programs. Schell Games and p2P previously partnered to create PlayForward: Elm City Stories. More >
WNPR
Yale Researchers Develop Virtual Reality Game To Combat Teen Vaping
Yale researchers at the play4REAL Lab have worked to develop a new vaping intervention game targeted at middle schoolers. They are currently testing its efficacy as an intervention for middle school students.
Yale News
Yale investigators receive NIH HEAL grants to study solutions to the opioid crisis
Yale researchers representing a range of disciplines have been awarded grants through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL). This national effort provides $945 million in total funding to support a variety of research projects that tackle the opioid addiction and overdose crisis. As part of this approach, several projects led by Yale faculty are funded for fiscal year 2019, including Dr. Fiellin and the play2PREVENT Lab. More >
Yale School of Medicine
Fiellin, play2PREVENT Lab Awarded Grant Through NIH HEAL Initiative
Lynn E. Fiellin, MD, associate professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and the Child Study Center; and founder/director, play2PREVENT Lab at Yale and the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, was recently awarded a grant through The Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or the NIH HEAL Initiative.
New Haven Biz
Yale video game will aim to prevent HIV, other STDs
"This month, Yale announced that the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development had awarded $460,000 to Yale research scientist Kimberly Hieftje toward the project. The money will support her research on “A Digital Intervention for HIV Prevention in Black Adolescent Girls.”
Yale News
Kimberly Hieftje awarded NIH grant for HIV prevention videogame
Dr. Kimberly Hieftje of Yale School of Medicine has been awarded $460,000 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to support her research on “A Digital Intervention for HIV Prevention in Black Adolescent Girls.”
CVS Health
CVS Health Announces Aggressive New Plans to Combat the Significant Rise in E-Cigarette Use Among Youth
Given the significant increase in the number of teens using e-cigarettes, CVS Health today announced that it and its charitable foundations will award a total of more than $10 million in 2019 to support youth smoking and e-cigarette prevention strategies and education delivered in classrooms, by clinicians and in communities across the United States. More >