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Harvard Public Health Review

Summer 2002

The overarching mission of the Harvard School of Public Health

is to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication.

Our objectives are to provide the highest level of education of

public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders; to foster new discoveries

leading to the improved health of the people of this country and all nations;

to strengthen health capacities and services for communities;

and to inform policy debate, disseminate health information, and increase awareness of

public health as a public good and fundamental right.

Features

One Foot Sleeping

Sometimes public health issues jump across their theoretical boundaries to invade our personal lives. Professor Michael Reich, the new director of the Harvard Center for Population Studies, recalls his harrowing ordeal of survival and recovery from a traffic accident and how it changed his view of public health.

Good as Goldie

For Assistant Professor Sue Goldie of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis making mathematical models of sexually transmitted diseases, securing funding for a cervical cancer screening pilot program, teaching packed classrooms the subject of decision science, raising two children, and learning Creole is all in a day's work

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Harvard Public Health Review

Summer 2002

The overarching mission of the Harvard School of Public Health

is to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication.

Our objectives are to provide the highest level of education of

public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders; to foster new discoveries

leading to the improved health of the people of this country and all nations;

to strengthen health capacities and services for communities;

and to inform policy debate, disseminate health information, and increase awareness of

public health as a public good and fundamental right.

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