Receiving appreciation for one’s job performance is always meaningful, especially when it comes from a supervisor. Imagine, then, Sarah Wood’s reaction when she learned that her longtime supervisor, former School dean and University provost Harvey Fineberg, AB ’67, MD ’71, MPP ’72, PhD ’80, had contributed $100,000 to the Harvard Chan School to endow the Sarah K. Wood Award for Outstanding … Continue reading “Philanthropic impact: New award established to recognize staff”
When the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health kicked off the celebration of the first Commencement under its new name this past spring, the opening event of the two days of festivities was the unveiling of a portrait of T.H. Chan. On May 27, members of the School’s community packed Rosenau Atrium in the … Continue reading “Portrait of T.H. Chan unveiled during Commencement Week”
You are not just creating a résumé. You are creating a biography,” Dean Julio Frenk told graduates on May 28 at the School’s 2015 commencement ceremony. He urged them to stay alert for “the tap on the shoulder from unexpected opportunities” and not to fear following career paths that diverge from traditional trajectories. In his final … Continue reading “Commencement 2015”
On April 25, a massive earthquake in Nepal, and a major aftershock on May 12, killed more than 8,800 people and injured more than 23,000. It was the worst natural disaster to strike this rugged Himalayan nation since a 1934 earthquake. The 2015 quakes triggered deadly landslides and avalanches, flattened entire villages, leveled historic buildings … Continue reading “Harvard Chan School responds to earthquake in Nepal”
Emily Sparer may be the first Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health student to have construction workers cheering her on at her dissertation defense. Sparer, who graduated in May with an SD in occupational safety and ergonomics, developed a safety communication program for construction sites built on a simple, low-cost idea: Take the safety … Continue reading “Building safer construction sites”
In a groundbreaking new course, students at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Business School square off over corporate regulation—and find common ground.
When Ellen Agler, MPH ’04, met Oumar three years ago in Mali, the teenager was wearing a soccer jersey—fitting attire for his favorite sport. But he could never play the game that delighted him: His legs and feet were huge and disfigured, the result of elephantiasis, a mosquito-borne parasitic infection that causes extreme swelling in the extremities.
Chagas’ disease afflicts an estimated 8 million people worldwide, mostly in Latin America—though that figure is believed to be low, due to underdiagnosis.
David Hunter, Dean for Academic Affairs at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since 2009 and Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, has been named acting dean of the faculty for the School.
Xihong Lin Chair, Department of Biostatistics Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics Q: What can biostatisticians do today that they couldn’t 10 years ago? A: Today, there are three terms to describe the massive amount of data that biostatisticians analyze: the genome, the exposome, and the phenome—all of which add up to the “omics” revolution. The … Continue reading “Off The Cuff: It’s the data first, hypotheses second”
