Harvard Public Health Review

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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.

Returning Home, with a Plan to Thwart Killer TB
Osman Abdullahi hopes to tackle one of Kenya's worst scourges.

A Launchpad for Leaders
Fellowship program nurtures physicians' "inner advocate," propelling them into roles helping the disadvantaged on a national and global stage.

The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health
School sets stage for global conversation with state-of-the-art webcasts.

STUDENTS

Each year, over 1000 students from more than 50 different countries pursue public health degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Can Neighborhoods Hurt Our Health?
Doctoral student Caitlin Eicher wants to understand how people’s perceptions of their local surroundings shape their health behaviors.

Idjwi Island: Oasis of Change
On Africa’s long-forsaken Idjwi island, HSPH students are building a health care system from the ground up.

Women, Welfare & Human Rights
HSPH student examines government policies and social forces that affect sexual and reproductive health of women.

Bridging a Cultural Divide
Are better tools needed to identify emotional distress in non-Western refugees?

Clearing the Air
Students target air pollution from Boston to sub-Saharan Africa

Case-based Learning
Innovative course prepares students to cope with complexity

Don't I Know You From Chennai?
How genes and environmental forces increase cancer risk 

How Genes and Environmental Forces Increase Cancer Risk
HSPH doctoral student Monica Ter-Minassian

You Have to Be There 
Michael Von Clemm traveling fellows experience public health in the real world

Jocelyn Kelly: Panzi Hospital
Rachel Rosenheck: 2 million newborn deaths
Debra Vaughn Hester: 10,000 people, no doctors
Erin Hetherington: School girls at risk for HIV
Stephanie Psaki: HIV/AIDS patients' plight
Meike Van Hemelrijk: Treatments abandoned
Claire Chase: The cost of malaria 

An Investment in the Future
By former HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom 

Project Antares
Can students launch enterprises that turn a profit and save lives? 

A Weighty Challenge
Pritzker scholarship winners fight the obesity epidemic from many angles

A Geographer of Health
Nicos Middleton, a research fellow in the HSPH-Cyprus Initiative for the Environment and Public Health, is studying the long-term health effects of traffic pollution in Boston and Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus.

FACULTY PROFILES

HSPH's world renowned faculty and researchers are credited with landmark discoveries ranging from identification of the AIDS virus most prevalent in Western Africa to demonstrating the dangers of dietary trans fats.

Waging Peace, Saving Lives
Renowned physician and Harvard School of Public Health Professor Emeritus Bernard Lown explains how defeating militarism could solve global health problems.

Mr. Water
John Briscoe offers bold, unorthodox ideas for managing scarce water

Wright Ideas: Couple's Combined Expertise Forges New Directions for Treating Asthma and Lead Poisoning 
HSPH faculty members Rosalind and Robert Wright make connections between environment, emotion, and health

Society Is His Patient: HSPH Dean Julio Frenk
Q&A with HSPH Dean and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development

Heart Disease: The Impact of Genetics, Stress, and Lifestyle
Q&A with Associate Professor Eric Rimm, Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at HSPH

A Tale of Two Countries: Q & A with HSPH Professor Jennifer Leaning
On May 2, Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar. Ten days later, an earthquake struck China's mountainous Sichuan Province. Both events focused the world's attention on the actions of China's and Myanmar's governments. What lessons might be drawn from these terrible events? 

Teacher in the Art of Listening
At NIH, Kenneth Olden engaged ordinary citizens in the battle for a safer environment

James Robins: Department of Biostatistics
Revolutionary thinker: One statistician's maverick quest for a 'unified theory of everything'

The Lessons of Oral Rehydration Therapy
The co-discoverer of a simple solution to a global killer passes all he has learned to public health's next generation