New Books

 

David Hemenway, professor of health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, has authored a new book While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention, published by the University of California Press. The book draws from more than 60 success stories from the injury and violence prevention fields to chronicle the lives of those who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make the world a safer place.

In an accompanying blog, Hemenway writes:

"Why did I decide to write While We Were Sleeping? It was to increase knowledge about public health by highlighting some of its successes.  Public health involves assuring that drinking water is safe, that pollution does not despoil the air, and that diseases such as smallpox, polio, measles and tuberculosis are kept in check.  It involves reducing rates of substance abuse, heart disease and obesity."

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Phyllis Kanki, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at HSPH and director, AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, and Richard Marlink, Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Professor of the Practice of Public Health at HSPH, have written A Line Drawn in the Sand: Responses to the AIDS Treatment Crisis in Africa. The book is published by Harvard University Press, which describes the book as capturing the determination of several African nations in tackling the challenge of providing lifesaving antiretroviral therapies to their citizens: Botswana, which has some of the highest HIV infection rates worldwide; Nigeria, whose epidemic threatens to become one of the world’s largest; Senegal, often touted as one of the few countries with a model response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and Tanzania, whose extreme poverty threatens efforts to stem its epidemic.

By emphasizing the dramatic results that investments in AIDS treatments in Africa can bring, the book provides lessons to nations about scaling up their own treatment responses, hope to individuals and communities confronted with the often devastating impact of AIDS, and inspiration to the international HIV/AIDS community.

--University of California Press, Harvard University Press