News

November 2020

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 >

September 2020

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 >

July 2020

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 >

December 2019

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 >

December 2019

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.

October 2019

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 >

September 2019

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.

September 2019

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.”

September 2019

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.”

June 2019

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 >