Tag Archives: Yale School of Public Health

Yale Alumni Magazine covers PepsiCo / Yale School of Medicine partnership controversy

Posted on August 1, 2010 by admin

This past March, I blogged about how soda and snack food giant PepsiCo formed a partnership with the Yale School of Medicine, where I earned my public health degree. The grant included $250,000 for a 5-year research fellowship to be … Continue reading →

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Lame response from Yale PR office re: PepsiCo / medical school deal

Posted on April 6, 2010 by admin

Here is what I received from Yale after I signed the petition at Change.org to ask the Yale School of Medicine to end its deal with PepsiCo, which I wrote about here and here. Thank you for your recent e-mail … Continue reading →

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Yale / PepsiCo Deal Making for Bad PR in Wall Street Journal and Yale Daily News

Posted on April 2, 2010 by admin

A few weeks ago I wrote about how the soda and snack-food giant PepsiCo had bought a piece of the Yale School of Medicine (my alma mater – MPH, 1990) by funding a “lab” and a fellowship program. Earlier this … Continue reading →

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PepsiCo opens "research" center at Yale Medicine – I may return my degree

Posted on March 8, 2010 by admin

This is really embarrassing. I attended the Yale School of Public Health back when it was still a separate department within the Yale School of Medicine. I just received my alumni newsletter, only to find out that Yale Medicine has … Continue reading →

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