In the News Archives

Most foods and beverages in grocery store checkout aisles are unhealthy—a reality that experts say is unlikely to change unless local, state, or federal laws are passed that require healthier options.

Belief in the safety of routine childhood vaccines rose over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but opposition grew to any sort of requirement that children be vaccinated in order to attend public schools, according to a new study by Harvard Chan School.

Mandy Cohen, MPH ’04, has been chosen by President Biden as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health inequities experienced by people of color in Massachusetts are costing the state an estimated $5.9 billion each year, according to a new report from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation and the Health Equity Compact.

Through predictive models, it may be possible to identify pregnant women in low-resource settings who are at high risk of failing to attend antenatal care, in order to develop interventions to encourage their attendance, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.

Enrollment in integrated care programs, which coordinate health care services for people enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, has grown in recent years—but that growth has been small, especially compared to conventional plans, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.

Female health care workers who had healthier sleep prior to COVID-19 infection had a lower risk of developing long COVID than their colleagues’ whose sleep was less healthy, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School.