Winter 2009

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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.

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Binge Drinking: Harvard College Alcohol Study Calls for Changes at U.S. School
A group of U.S. college presidents proposed this summer to open up a national debate about the legal drinking age.

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.

Remembering the late HSPH Nobel Laureate, Thomas Weller
Thomas Weller developed a new way to culture viruses in test tubes so that scientists could then test drugs against the polio virus and other pathogens.

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.

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

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