Featured News Archives
2012
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…
Breaking the cycle of undernourished women giving birth to low-birthweight babies
August 30, 2012 -- Nutritional support in first thousand days of child’s life critical to development Despite gains in economic growth,…
Transforming Ethiopia's health care system from the ground up
August 29, 2012 -- There are currently more Ethiopian doctors working in Chicago than in Ethiopia, according to Keseteberhan Admassu,…
Experts from around globe learn best ways to control airborne infections at HSPH Executive Education Program
August 29, 2012 -- In 2008, architect Tariq Qaiser was in the process of designing tuberculosis (TB) clinics in Pakistan.…