Public Health Problem Solvers

From childhood trauma and urban violence to climate change and deadly epidemics, the Harvard Chan School is at the front lines, transforming ideas into action.

Winter 2020

IN THIS ISSUE

Launching a revolution
As California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris, MPH ’02, is finding the roots of disease in childhood adversity and treating the long-term consequences.
The uses of outrage
Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology, builds systems to track and forecast the spread of lethal infections.
Healing the hurt
Physician John A. Rich, MPH ’90, reflects on what has he learned in the decade since publishing a pathbreaking book on trauma in the lives of young black men.

DEPARTMENTS

Message from the Dean: Thought and Action
This issue of Harvard Public Health highlights problem solvers.
Frontlines
Quick updates about the latest public health news from across the School and beyond.
Off the cuff—Lipids and Aging: Mapping the Next Frontier
If you look at the big noncommunicable diseases of aging that the Harvard Chan School is concerned about, lipid metabolism is critical in every case.
Q&A: In Madagascar, climate change means public health peril
Since 2004, Christopher Golden has been filling in the links between climate change and health among Madagascar’s Malagasy people, in hopes of refining both scientific understanding and on-the-ground interventions.
Alumni Awards 2019
Three outstanding individuals nominated by their peers received the School’s highest honor at this year’s Alumni Award of Merit celebration.