Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a massive humanitarian crisis, with mounting military and civilian casualties and more than two million people on the move to escape the violence. In this Big 3 Q&A, Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, talks about the biggest threats people are facing and how humanitarian organizations are helping.
WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus, in conversation with Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, outlined steps to combat the “confusion and incoherence” that has characterized the COVID-19 pandemic response.
What will the future of SARS-CoV-2 look like, and what should we as a community consider in our response to changing conditions? Harvard Chan School’s Yonatan Grad offers thoughts in this Q&A.
The Jane Jie Sun Harvard LEAD Fellowship aims to equip and empower women from low- and middle-income countries for global health leadership roles. Women from Malawi, Namibia, India, and Uganda are part of the 2021 cohort.
Adele Houghton, DrPH ’23, is creating new tools to help real estate teams become more responsive to the health needs of their buildings’ occupants and the surrounding communities.
So-called “good cholesterol” is supposed to help unclog arteries, but recent research has shown there are different types and some don’t improve health, and may even harm it. Researcher Jeremy Furtado explains how he and colleagues figured it out and why some initially promising cholesterol drugs didn’t work.
Howard Koh, professor of the practice of public health leadership, discusses factors contributing to the opioid crisis and recommendations on how to curb it.
South African activist Mamphela Ramphele will serve as the Class of 2022 speaker on May 25, and CBS News medical correspondent Jonathan LaPook will address the Classes of 2020 and 2021 on May 28.
A new series of interactive web resources titled Environmental Racism in Greater Boston, produced by experts at Harvard Chan School, tells a multifaceted and accessible story, including interactive data visualizations, about disparities in environmental exposures from the regional level to the individual level.
Karen Emmons, professor of social and behavioral sciences, says that implementation scientists can bring the full benefits of scientific discovery to health, and improve cancer control, by focusing more on the policy-making process.