Harvard Public Health: Spring/Summer 2012
In this issue The art of getting things done Vermont’s single-payer health care plan is just the latest of Bill Hsiao’s many public health … Continue reading “Harvard Public Health: Spring/Summer 2012”
In this issue The art of getting things done Vermont’s single-payer health care plan is just the latest of Bill Hsiao’s many public health … Continue reading “Harvard Public Health: Spring/Summer 2012”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] On January 19, 2011, HSPH professor William Hsiao walked onto the podium in the well of the Vermont State House. … Continue reading “The art of getting things done”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] Public health centers on improving the physical and mental well-being of people everywhere. But even with this deep-rooted interest in … Continue reading “Dean’s message: Singular vision”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] Quick updates about the latest public health news from across the School and beyond. Gender Nonconformity May Raise Risks for … Continue reading “Frontlines Spring/Summer 2012”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] Q: You study how genes affect mosquito fertility and mating, a potentially groundbreaking way to prevent malaria transmission. In perfecting this approach, you … Continue reading “Off the cuff: Mosquitoes, sex, & malaria”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] HSPH’s Philippe Grandjean answers questions about PFCs In January 2012, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that perfluorinated … Continue reading “Vaccine effectiveness threatened by everyday chemical”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] Petabytes of raw information could provide clues for everything from preventing TB to shrinking health care costs—if we can figure … Continue reading “The promise of big data”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] Better-trained aid workers, closer coordination among relief agencies, and a bigger dose of humility while working in unfamiliar cultures would … Continue reading “Can doing good be done better?”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] It’s an all too common scene: A girl looks at a photo in a fashion magazine and compares the model’s … Continue reading “Accentuating the positive”
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] Thirteen years ago, Kate Powis, then in her late thirties, earned a handsome salary as a vice president at electronics … Continue reading “Finding her true path”