Overview
Dr. Lily Yan, MD MSc is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal medicine and Center for Global Health at Weill Cornell Medicine in the United States. She works on cardiovascular disease prevention, treatment, and association with environmental exposures in low- and middle-income countries, including Cambodia, Zambia, Haiti and Tanzania. High impact findings include: heart failure is the most prevalent cardiovascular disease in a population-based cohort in Port-au-Prince, high levels of blood lead associated with higher blood pressure, and multisectoral interest in community-based hypertension care.
Highlights
- 1Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024
- 2Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2021
- 3AIDS (London, England) · 2024
Publications
Funding
Active
2 grants- PIK23HL177149-02Environmental Lead Pollution and Heart Failure in HaitiNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2025–2030Career· 2 renewals
- Co-IR01HL143788-08S1A longitudinal cohort study to evaluate cardiovascular risk factors and disease in Haiti - 2 - Foreign supplementNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · 2023–2028· 2 renewals
Clinical research
Active
1 study- PIClinical and Epidemiological Research on Chronic Disease in the CaribbeanWeill Medical College of Cornell University · OPEN TO ACCRUAL (as of 2024)
News mentions
- Haiti Study Suggests Early-Onset Heart Failure is Prevalent Form of Heart Disease in Low-Income CountriesApril 29, 2024
Early-onset heart failure is alarmingly common in urban Haiti—over 15-fold higher than previously estimated—according to a study conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers in partnership with the Haitian medical organization GHESKIO.