Researchers Tobias Walther and Pardis Sabeti were named HHMI investigators in May by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute—a prestigious five-year appointment covering salary, benefits, and research budget. Walther, professor of genetics and complex diseases, is the first faculty member with a primary appointment at the School to receive the honor. With scientific partner Robert Farese, … Continue reading “Two Harvard Chan faculty receive prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigatorships”
Quick updates about the latest public health news from across the School and beyond. Paid maternity leave has lasting mental health benefit Paid maternity leave following the birth of a first child appears to have positive benefits on women’s mental health later in life, according to a new study. Researchers looked at data from women … Continue reading “Fall 2015 Frontlines”
As I begin my new role as Acting Dean of the Faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, I feel extraordinarily privileged to be leading an institution with such tremendous momentum behind its work. Much of this forward movement derives from the visionary leadership of former Dean Julio Frenk. But even as … Continue reading “Message from the acting dean: Maintaining the momentum”
Quick updates about the latest public health news from across the School and beyond.
Much like the Rockefeller Foundation, which helped set the direction of public health in the early 20th century by supporting infectious disease eradication efforts and the training of public health officers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has shaped the landscape of public health in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, investing in such … Continue reading “Today’s biggest philanthropy supports HSPH work”
Harvard School of Public Health has set an ambitious goal of raising $450 million by 2018.
For the past 100 years, donors to Harvard School of Public Health have stepped in at pivotal moments to fund the people, ideas, and infrastructure needed to make lifesaving discoveries and innovations possible. From polio to AIDS, from workplace safety to improving the delivery of humanitarian relief, from obesity prevention to air flight safety—the stories … Continue reading “Sparking Innovation”
Growing up, Francesca Dominici lived about a mile from Ciampino Airport, the second busiest in Rome. As she remembers it, the greatest nuisance from the roar of aircraft over her home was that she couldn’t hear her friends when talking on the phone.
Three alumni nominated by their peers received the Harvard School of Public Health Alumni Award of Merit—the highest honor presented to an alumna or alumnus—at this year’s Alumni Centennial Weekend dinner held on November 2 at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
The world seems increasingly under the siege of public health emergencies: deadly new infections, catastrophic weather events, terrorism, industrial accidents. Do successful public health responses in one realm translate to other types of threats?
