Featured News Archives
2013
Applying global health lessons to U.S. health care
May 17, 2013 — The conversation around health care policy in the United States, mired as it is in partisan… Read more
At three-day disaster simulation, students experience challenges, unpredictability of humanitarian relief work
May 15, 2013 — Ninety-three students spent April 26-28, 2013 learning how to rapidly respond to a refugee crisis while…
Spreading his wings: Air Force flight surgeon wants to promote healthy strategies for patients
May 13, 2013 -- As a flight surgeon for the U.S. Air Force, Russell Tontz doesn’t perform surgery—the name “flight…
Why epidemiologists should get involved with policy
May 13, 2013 -- In 1854, in the midst of a cholera epidemic in Soho, London, English doctor John Snow…
Quan Lu receives Tashjian award for excellence in endocrine research at annual ceremony and lecture
May 10, 2013 — Quan Lu, Mark and Catherine Winkler Assistant Professor of Lung Biology in the Departments of Environmental…
High schoolers get an introduction to field of public health
May 10, 2013 — Yaendy Matos, a student at Fenway High School in Boston, says she is interested in a…
Monkey malaria parasite poses increasing risks to humans
May 9, 2013 -- A new study has shed light on why a monkey malaria parasite that typically caused only…
HSPH student profiles
Harvard School of Public Health's student population is made up of more than 1,000 individuals from throughout the United States…
HSPH student Ali Chisti aims to improve health—and health care access—in rural Oregon
May 6, 2013 -- Three years ago, Oregon native Ali Chisti, MPH ’13, was on course to become a private…