Study by Rohini Pande, Pop Center faculty member, finds that women leaders change the perceptions and behaviors toward all women and raise the aspirations of girls and their parents. Read more in IMF Survey: Better Gender Balance at Top Helps Both Women and Men.
News and Announcements
Proton Beam Therapy Fuels Hospital Costs
Amitabh Chandra, Pop Center faculty member, expresses concern that the high patient volume needed to pay for new expensive treatment centers such as proton beam therapy will fuel health care costs while adding little to patient benefit. Read more …
Business, health and philanthropy hand in hand
Antares, a collaboration between the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Business School and co-directed by David Bloom, Pop Center faculty member, explores ways to combine health services to the poor with financially sustainable business models. Read more …
Decline in U.S. gastric cancer rates linked to modifiable risk factors
Study by Sue Goldie, Pop Center faculty member, finds declines in smoking and H. pylori infection contribute to reduced rates of gastric cancer in the U.S.. Read more …
Censorship and social policy
Gary King, Pop Center faculty member, studies how Chinese government censorship of social media is used to shape public outlook and promote social policy. Read more …
No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics
Gita Sen, Pop Center faculty member, provides a feminist analysis of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Read more in “No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics: Gender-Equality, MDGs and the post 2015 Development Agenda” published last month in the Harvard School of Public Health Working Paper Series.
UV index and racial differences in prostate cancer
David Cutler, Pop Center faculty member, studies the role of vitamin D and the ultraviolet index on racial disparities in prostate cancer incidence and mortality. Read more…
Dying in their prime: determinants and space-time risk of adult mortality in rural South Africa
Study by Pop Center faculty members, Kathleen Kahn and Stephen Tollman, investigates the driving forces behind adult mortality in rural South Africa and their policy implications.Read more …
Underestimating Fast Food
Research by Jason Block, Pop Center faculty member, finds that the public underestimates calories consumed in fast food meals.Read more …
Save the Date: June 14, 2013
David Canning, Pop Center Associate Director, Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and Professor of Economics and International Health, will be a panelist at the HSPH Forum on Girls’ Health and Education: Igniting Change Worldwide presented in partnership with Vulcan Productions.
When: Friday, June 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Where: The Leadership Studio, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
RSVP to: theforum@hsph.harvard.edu
Watch at: www.ForumHSPH.org
Research suggests that educating girls and women safeguards their well-being, ensures healthy future generations, alleviates poverty, and boosts GDP. Yet alarming discrepancies persist between genders and within and among nations on who receives quality, sustained education and, consequently, who experiences the most opportunities to thrive. This Forum event will examine the sources of these discrepancies, including entrenched biases and predatory acts such as trafficking, and will review efforts to raise up the world’s girls through health and education. This event is presented in partnership with Vulcan Productions, a founding partner of the 10×10 global action campaign centered on the new film Girl Rising. The broadcast version of the film will air on CNN Films on June 16.
EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
- Richard Robbins, Director of Girl Rising and Academy Award Nominee
- Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH); Jeremiah Smith Jr Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School; and University Advisor on Human Rights to the Provost at Harvard University
- Alicia Yamin, Director, Program on Health Rights of Women and Children,
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, HSPH; Former Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights - David Canning, Associate Director Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; Professor of Population Science and Professor of Economics and International Health, HSPH
ASK THE EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Email questions for the expert participants any time before or during the live webcast to: the forum@hsph.harvard.edu. The Forum will accommodate as many questions as we can from the online and in-person audiences.
Submit your questions to the Community Discussion page.
PARTICIPATE DURING THE LIVE WEBCAST
Join the live comments, which will be featured on The Forum’s Girls’ Health and Education: Igniting Change Worldwide web page.
We will also be live-tweeting from @ForumHSPH
Tweet your questions and comments using the hash tag #girlshealtheducation.