HSPH Researchers and Bloom Papers Featured in Current JAMA Theme Issue
The current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), February 7, features two papers from Dean Barry Bloom and HSPH researchers. The issue is free and themed, "Opportunities for Medical Research in the 21st Century," a topic important to the mission of HSPH. Bloom helped to edit the issue.
One of the papers, "Burden of Disease--Implications for Future Research," was co-authored by Catherine Michaud, senior research associate at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Christopher Murray, professor of international health economics in the Department of Population and International Health, and Bloom. They discuss health disparities that persist between affluent and poor countries and among different population groups within countries, including the U.S. The authors cite as one example the 41.3 year difference in life expectancies of American Indian men in some counties in South Dakota and Asian women in New Jersey.
The second article, co-written by Bloom, "Prospects for
Vaccines to Protect Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria," addresses
the feasibility of protecting against these scourges, which kill more than
5 million people annually. The authors outline strategies by which the
diseases can be contained or eliminated through vaccinations.
