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Three outstanding individuals nominated by their peers received the School’s highest alumni honor at this year’s Alumni Award of Merit Dinner held on October 3. Hilarie Cranmer, MPH ’04 Hilarie Cranmer is an emergency physician, researcher, and educator working to advance practice standards for humanitarian responders. She has participated in the response to major humanitarian … Continue reading “Alumni Awards 2015”
As cholera swept through London in the mid-19th century, a physician named John Snow painstakingly drew a paper map indicating clusters of homes where the deadly waterborne infection had struck.
A former postdoctoral fellow with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, virologist Iain MacLeod in 2014 cofounded Aldatu Biosciences, which provides sensitive and cost-effective diagnostics to detect drug resistance in antiretroviral treatments for HIV. The first drug-resistance test designed specifically for use in Africa, it can be stored at room temperature … Continue reading “Q&A: A New Test For Drug-Resistant HIV Breaks All the Scientific Rules”
CARMON DAVIS, MPH ’94 PEDIATRICIAN, BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Q: How has your MPH degree influenced your daily work as a doctor? And did studying the large social, political, and economic forces behind individual health make you more or less optimistic in your role as a clinician? A: When I was at the School, my practicum … Continue reading “Off the Cuff: How Does an MPH Help an MD?”
Parents Chemical Exposures May Affect Their Children Parents’ exposure to chemicals found in common household items such as paints and plastic bottles may affect the health of their young children, according to two recent studies co-authored by Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health. In the first, Grandjean shows that a widely used class of … Continue reading “Winter 2016 Frontlines”
The stories in this issue of Harvard Public Health demonstrate the extraordinary ripple effect that our School’s graduates are having on populations worldwide. As you will read in these pages, the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Lori Housworth has transformed pediatric care in the most impoverished parts of Cambodia. Madeline deLone, executive director of the … Continue reading “Message From the Acting Dean: The Ripple Effect”
HSPH pairs with refugee public health students to create a healthier Burma
Angela Diaz, MPH ’02, knows what it’s like to overcome nearly impossible odds—and to pay forward the hard lessons she learned along the way.
In the early 1990s, Levins and others formed the Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases
Since the mid-1940s, compounds containing the mineral fluoride have been added to community water supplies throughout the U.S. to prevent tooth decay. Health concerns expressed by opponents have largely been dismissed until recently.
