President Peter Salovey hosted a live town hall meeting on August 26 to provide information about public health conditions and precautions and to address questions about the pandemic. The president was joined by Yale experts who are advising the university on how to conduct responsibly an in-person semester:
- Nancy Brown, MD, Jean and David W. Wallace Dean of the Yale School of Medicine and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine
- Albert Ko, MD, Department Chair and Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
- Linda Niccolai, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Director, HPV Working Group at Yale; Director, CT Emerging Infections Program at Yale, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
- Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA, Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Medicine; Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
- Stephanie Spangler, MD, University COVID-19 Coordinator and Vice Provost for Health Affairs and Academic Integrity