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2012
Alumni weekend 2012
October 4, 2012 -- View a slideshow of more photos from the weekend. Cold, rainy weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of…
New HSPH online edX course will reach worldwide audience
October 3, 2012 -- Quantitative Methods Course Teaches Building Blocks of Public Health Research It’s time for biostatistics and epidemiology class.…
Closing the cancer divide
October 2, 2012 -- A young Rwandan girl named Claudine is one of the lucky ones. In 2005, after months…
HSPH's Office of Diversity hosts open house
September 27, 2012 -- With jazz in the background and pizza and empanadas set out on the table, it was…
Postdocs take center stage at annual appreciation day
September 27, 2012 -- Raffles, kudos, and awards were on the agenda at the Harvard School of Public Health's Postdoc…
Speaker says epidemiology got its start centuries ago
September 24, 2012 -- Can an academic discipline have an exact birthday? Alfredo Morabia thinks so, and he believes that epidemiology’s…
Replacing juice with water, fruits, and vegetables in afterschool programs cuts calories
September 17, 2012 -- One in three U.S. children are overweight or obese, and growing evidence points to the empty…
Does mammography screening save lives?
September 13, 2012 -- Over the past 40 years, many have come to view mammography screening as the “gold standard”…
Home stress, work stress linked with increased smoking
September 12, 2012 -- According to new research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), there’s a strong association between…