Harvard Public Health Review
Mobilizing a Revolution
A growing movement at HSPH and within the global health community is working to leverage the explosion in mobile phone availability—and the data cellphones can share and produce—to change how public health and medical problems are identified, prevented, and treated.
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Dean's Message: The Quest for Innovation
From the germ theory of disease to genetic epidemiology, public health revolutions have always sprung from inventive ideas fueled by moral urgency.
Frontlines
Learn more about stories in the Winter 2012 issue of the Harvard Public Health Review.
HSPH Student Helps Mass. Department of Public Health Analyze Raw Milk Distribution
The raw milk debate heats up as lawmakers consider loosening restrictions on its sale.
Hitting the Lottery
Oregon’s experiment with Medicaid gives HSPH economist Katherine Baicker a rare chance to analyze effects of extended coverage.
HSPH Alumni Award of Merit Winners
This year's winners worked at Bellevue Hospital, tended earthquake victims in Haiti, researched anemia on a Navajo reservation, and inspired students in Argentina.
Philanthropic Impact
Recent gifts from HSPH supporters are boosting efforts to promote maternal health, global health education, and financial aid.
Happiness & Health: Are Good Moods Good Medicine?
A new avenue of public health explores whether a sunny outlook could mean fewer colds and less heart disease
AIDS at 30: Hard Lessons and Hope
Thirty years after the first official reports about HIV/AIDS, we look back on the human devastation and forward to a changed social landscape.
Reining in Health Care Costs
As commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, Sarah Iselin, SM ’99, is responsible for implementing key provisions of state health care legislation—despite a budge deficit that in February 2009 exceeded $1.5 billion
Child Brides, Child Mothers, Child Victims
Changing the cycle of family abuse in India and South Asia
