Featured News Archives
2011
Indonesian Minister of Health discusses challenges of implementing health reform
July 15, 2011 Improving access to health care for more than 237 million people spread across the sprawling 17,000-plus island…
HSPH, HBS students team to develop health-care model for women's development organization in Mexico
July 12, 2011 -- “Poverty and poor health perpetuate each other,” said Callae Snively, a student and SM ’12 candidate…
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton visits health center in Tanzania
June 12, 2011 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Buguruni Health Center in Tanzania. The site, which is associated…
HSPH Commencement 2011
May 27, 2011 -- HSPH Graduates Urged To Become Leaders, Transform Public Health Dean Julio Frenk opened the 2011 Commencement Ceremonies on a…
New HSPH office building earns green award
May 17, 2011 -- 90 Smith Street, a 43,000-square-foot former Catholic elementary school now housing several HSPH administrative offices, received top…
Gawande New Yorker article on end-of-life care wins National Magazine Award
May 11, 2011 Atul Gawande, associate professor in HSPH’s Department of Health Policy and Management and a surgeon at Brigham…
HSPH students, researchers display their findings at 25th annual poster and exhibit day
May 10, 2011 -- A study measuring potential changes in the behavior of Chinese health care consumers as their household…
Life on the 'Dark Side': HSPH alum describes role of private sector in public health
May 10, 2011 -- A public health professional who works in private industry can play as important a role in…
Challenges of eradicating malaria outlined at World Malaria Day Program at HSPH
May 10, 2011 -- Despite stepped up worldwide efforts to combat malaria over the last decade, increasing drug resistance, poor access to…
Heat waves tied to climate change could increase urban fatalities
May 6, 2011 Scientists predict that global climate change will generate more heat waves in the decades ahead, but few…