Starting a Conversation
[ Spring 2013 ] To foster open discussion about the consequences of gun ownership, public health researchers want to know much more about the lure of … Continue reading “Starting a Conversation”
[ Spring 2013 ] To foster open discussion about the consequences of gun ownership, public health researchers want to know much more about the lure of … Continue reading “Starting a Conversation”
In this issue Guns & Suicide: The Hidden Toll In the U.S., nearly twice as many people kill themselves with a firearm each year … Continue reading “Harvard Public Health: Spring 2013”
[ Spring 2013 ] Gun violence is one of the most politically divisive issues in the United States–and this contentiousness has played out in government funding … Continue reading “Politics & Beyond”
[ Spring 2013 ] In April 2009, over a five-day period, two young men and an older woman in New Hampshire each bought handguns from Riley’s … Continue reading “The Gun Shop Project”
[ Spring 2013 ] Survivor profiles “He was struggling with nightmares.” Emily Frazier’s 21-year-old husband, Ryan Frazier, shot himself with a semiautomatic in November 2008, soon … Continue reading “Guns & Suicide: The Hidden Toll”
[ Spring 2013 ] As this issue of Harvard Public Health confirms, public health rings loud and clear in the daily news. And virtually every story … Continue reading “Dean’s message: Health and headlines”
[ Spring 2013 ] Quick updates about the latest public health news from across the School and beyond. HSPH cracks secrets of the malaria … Continue reading “Spring 2013 Frontlines”
[ Spring 2013 ] Special Report by Madeline Drexler, Editor, Harvard Public Health There’s a gas station maybe a five-minute drive away from us, and the … Continue reading “Guns & Suicide: The Hidden Toll”
[ Spring 2013 ] Why we act against our own best interests Human beings act irrationally. This long-established observation, corroborated now by the burgeoning field of … Continue reading “Q&A: The science of irrationality”
[ Spring 2013 ] Ten years ago, President George W. Bush launched a $15 billion international program to fight AIDS—the largest public health initiative in history … Continue reading “Off the cuff: The turning point in the AIDS epidemic”