<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2026/virtual-reality-in-public-health.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>01/09/2026</pubDate><title>Grad Students Explore How Research Methods Shape Innovative Virtual Reality Interventions in Public Health</title><description>Alvin Tran, ScD, MPH, created an opportunity for several of his Master of Public Health (MPH) to visit Yale to engage with pediatric health experts to learn how they are applying innovative technologies to help enhance the health of children.</description><hide-description/><author>Alvin Tran, ScD, MPH, Zintombizodwa Dube ’27 MPH, Udaykiran Gorige ’27 MPH, and Nahom Tewolde ’27 MPH</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>January 9, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/health-sciences/news/2026/virtual-reality-presentation.jpg" alt="virtual-reality-presentation"/></image><image-caption>MPH students explore how research methods are applied to virtual reality and game-based public health interventions during a visit to XRPeds lab.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-health-sciences</tag><tag>name-alvin-tran</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-grad-public-health</tag><tag>year-2026</tag></tags></item>