Mapping Boston’s Soundscape
Erica Walker, SD ’17, biked around Boston to take the measure of a city’s noise and its effects on residents.
Magazine Articles
Erica Walker, SD ’17, biked around Boston to take the measure of a city’s noise and its effects on residents.
Robert Farese and Tobias Walther’s unusual lab is cracking the secrets to diseases ranging from diabetes to dementia.
A 20-year partnership among the Boston Housing Authority, public housing residents, and academic researchers eases some of the health hazards born of poverty.
“Public health is ultimately about the quality of the human existence. At the end of the day, this is one planet—we all live on it.” It was during the battle over health care reform, back in the early 1990s, that Russ Carson first learned about the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. When Hillary Clinton … Continue reading “Philanthropic Impact: Leadership in Scholarships”
$21 Million Gift from Lee Kum Kee Family To Fund Research on Links between Psychological Well-Being and Physical Health
Michelle A. Williams, SM ’88, SD ’91, a distinguished epidemiologist and award-winning educator known for her influential studies of maternal and child health around the world, will become the next dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, starting in July.
As with every emerging infection, the Zika epidemic is forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions about human biology
“If you think about how the world responds to pandemics, we are in better shape than we were 20 years ago. We are nowhere near as good as we need to be. I would call it a glass quarter-full. What is important about Zika is that it comes on the heels of Ebola. This completely … Continue reading “Off the Cuff: What Will Zika Teach Us About Halting the Next Epidemic?”
Does Cancer Risk Run in the Family? A large new study of twins finds that if one twin sibling is diagnosed with cancer, the other has a greater-than-average risk of developing cancer. This excess familial risk was seen for almost all of the 23 types of cancer studied, including common malignancies such as breast and prostate cancer but also … Continue reading “Spring 2016 Frontlines”
The power of collaboration has played a part in virtually every great public health intervention, and evidence of that power carries through this issue of Harvard Public Health