Melissa Bartick, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an MPH student at Harvard Chan School, studied whether not breastfeeding could be one possible explanation for demographic disparities in sudden unexpected infant deaths.
About a dozen students gathered on a recent Tuesday afternoon at Harvard Chan School for an interactive workshop where they met new people, did a mindfulness exercise—and colored.
Since August 2021, Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard Chan School, has been working to strengthen the U.S. early warning system for health threats as director for science at the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
Researchers have developed an alternative “smart” packaging material that keeps harmful bacteria and spoilage microorganisms off of food and plastic pollution out of the environment.
Cecilia Vu, PhD ’22, uses her quantitative skills to explore the health of African Americans who left the South during the 20th century.
Claude Bruderlein, adjunct lecturer on global health at Harvard Chan School and senior researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, describes the challenges of humanitarian negotiations in regions affected by conflict.
Stephen Kissler, research fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, spoke on March 23rd.
Armed with degrees in systems engineering, business, and epidemiology, Brandon Alexander Anthony, MPH ’22, hopes to launch a company that helps health systems design better services for patients of color, LGBTQ patients, and other marginalized groups.
To mark World TB Day, March 24, Harvard Chan School’s Sarah Fortune, a TB expert, discusses the state of the disease worldwide, obstacles to fighting it, and the latest research.
At the Yerby Diversity Lecture in Public Health, Morehouse College of Medicine’s Valerie Montgomery Rice talked about her school’s efforts to address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on poorer people and racial minorities—and what more can be done about it.