MSc & PhD at Yale School of Public Health where he works as an Assistant Professor. He is the co-proponent for the establishment of the Yale institute that will focus on the olive tree, its products and their effects on human and planetary health.
Subject: Assessing the health-related benefits of table olives consumption: A Yale University research project
Tassos C. Kyriakides, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health and the Director, Department of Veterans’ Affairs Cooperative Studies Program (VACSPCC), West Haven, CT . He completed his B.Sc. as a Fulbright Scholar at UCLA (Biochemistry; 1993)
and received his Ph.D. at the Yale School of Public Health (Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases; 1999). Dr. Kyriakides, is the co-proponent for the establishment of the Yale institute that will focus on the olive tree, its products and their effects on human and planetary health. At Yale, he helps design and guide the methodology, data processes and management, and statistical analysis for numerous research protocols; he is a reviewer for high-impact journals (Lancet Infectious Diseases; Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology). At the VACSPCC he has worked on pivotal trials in: HIV/AIDS treatment (The OPTIMA Trial); surgery (The OVER Trial); PTSD (The VIP-STAR Trial). He has assumed the role of Director at the center in 2018. He is a Legacy Circle member of the Massaro Community Farm, in Woodbridge, CT, the Immediate Past President of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health Board and a faculty fellow at Yale’s Saybrook College.