HSPH in the News Archives
2011
Global health news: guinea worm disease may soon join smallpox in the history books as worldwide cases dwindle
February 3, 2011
Guinea worm disease may soon be the second disease to be eliminated from the world after smallpox, Donald Hopkins, vice…
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon call for action to address chronic disease in developing countries
January 27, 2011
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk spoke on a panel about the rising burden of chronic disease in the developing world at…
Health reform news: accountable care organizations offer promise for cost-savings, greater efficiency
January 27, 2011
Accountable care organizations (ACOs), legal partnerships between doctors and hospitals that provide financial incentives to providers for more efficient and…
HSPH health policy experts discuss implications of proposed Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan merger
January 25, 2011
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, Massachusetts’ second and third largest health plans, are exploring a merger that…
Time to stop talking about low-fat, say HSPH nutrition experts
January 21, 2011
It is time to end the low-fat myth, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition experts told food industry leaders…
Global experts convene for malaria eradication conference
January 21, 2011
Leading malaria experts from public and private institutions around the world convened for a three-day conference aimed at discussing and…
Health reform news: HSPH Prof recommends single-payer health care system for Vermont
January 20, 2011
Last year, Harvard School of Public Health economist William Hsiao was commissioned by the Vermont state legislature to design three…
Health reform news: For the most expensive patients, better preventative care can drastically reduce costs
January 19, 2011
HSPH’s Atul Gawande, a physician and regular contributor to The New Yorker, wrote a piece in the January 24, 2011…
Hospitals treating high number of heart failure patients see better outcomes than low-volume hospitals, but at higher cost for care
January 18, 2011
A new study co-authored by HSPH research fellow Karen Joynt found that hospitals treating a high number of patients suffering…
Professor Barry Bloom named AAAS Fellow
January 11, 2011
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at…