Employer Health Incentives: Employee wellness programs prod workers to adopt healthy lifestyles
Companies are increasingly using wellness incentives -- and disincentives -- to rein in runaway health care costs. HSPH health policy experts Michelle Mello and Meredith Rosenthal are studying the cost-effectiveness and legal parameters of these new plans. more
Binge Drinking:
Harvard College Alcohol Study calls for changes at U.S. Schools
Fed up with their inability to deter underage students from binge
drinking on campus, 120 U.S. college presidents proposed this past
summer to open up a national debate about the legal drinking age. “21
is not working,” the presidents opined. Younger students were flouting
the law. more
Don't I Know You From Chennai?
Reunited childhood friends share passion for helping kids
Drs. Sanjeev Sriram and Mohan Sundararaj met as 7th graders in India and reunited as MPH students at HSPH. Both share a passion for helping kids. more
Remembering the late HSPH Nobel Laureate, Thomas Weller
As the polio virus swept across the United States in 1948, 32-year-old Thomas Weller was logging long hours in a Harvard Medical School laboratory, working to develop a new way to culture viruses in test tubes so that scientists could then test drugs against the pathogens. read more
The impact of genetics, stress, and lifestyle
Every heart attack survivor has a story to tell. Harvard School of Public Health Leadership Council member Rick Smith's is a tale of good fortune. read more
Drs. Rosalind and Robert Wright. more
Researcher removes roadblocks for people with limited income and literacy. more
National Institutes of Health one-time funding boost is expected to support promising or underfinanced research. more
Catching the flu before it catches the world. more
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