Magazine Archives
2009
Navigating health on the information superhighway
September 15, 2009
[Fall 2009] Researcher removes roadblocks for people with limited income and literacy With debate over unequal access to health care…
Alumni Award of Merit Winners 2009
September 15, 2009
[Fall 2009] Scientific Pioneers, Inspirational Teachers Call them pioneers for delving into unexplored research areas. Call them conventional-wisdom busters for…
Harvard Public Health: Spring 2009
May 15, 2009
In this issue Society is his patient Recently HSPH's new Dean, Julio Frenk, sat down with the Harvard Public Health Review to…
Society is his patient
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] Julio Frenk's arrival in January as the seventh Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) was,…
Making sense of sexual violence in Central Africa
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] Imani* was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe seized her on the road.…
Obesity in China portends a diabetic disaster
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] Like a runaway train, type 2 diabetes is speeding through many rapidly developing countries, including China. Could a seemingly simple…
China's leaders, HSPH experts unite in health reform effort
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] At the height of China's SARS outbreak in the spring of 2003, with Beijing reporting hundreds of new…
The cost of South Africa's misguided AIDS policies
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] The human cost of South Africa's misguided AIDS policies AIDS activists and researchers argued for years that the…
Case-based learning
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] Innovative course prepares students to cope with complexity Imagine yourself as a candidate for the master's degree in…
Stealth tobacco
May 15, 2009
[ Spring 2009 ] Products Designed to Evade Control Can't smoke on an airplane, but still crave tobacco? Tobacco companies have come…