Free online course focuses on malaria eradication
An eight-part, self-paced online course featuring a multidisciplinary perspective on eradicating malaria—MalariaX: Defeating Malaria from the Genes to the Globe—debuted over the summer on the edX global learning platform. The course focuses on the scientific and technological underpinnings…
Michael Reich receives award for research on health policy and systems
Michael Reich, Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy, has received an award for Lifetime Service in the field of Health Policy and Systems Research from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSE) and Health Systems…
Michael Reich honored for advancing public health in Japan
For immediate release: April 29, 2015 Boston, MA — On April 29 in Japan, the Japanese Government announced its Spring Honors List. Harvard University Professor Michael Robin Reich is awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays…
Harvard Chan researchers featured in inaugural issue of health systems journal
The new journal Health Systems and Reform (HS&R) launched in March 2015 with an issue featuring authors affiliated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The quarterly peer-reviewed journal aims to bridge theory and practice in the…
Public health politician
August 19, 2014 — When she was running for a seat in Japan’s house of representatives, Mayuko Toyota, SM ’02, one day found herself standing in the rain on crutches, giving a speech at a common venue for…
Bringing fairness to health care access
May 27, 2014 -- Outside the gates of her Mexico City high school, Thalia Porteny would always see kids begging for food. “It made me feel uneasy and frustrated,” said Porteny. “I knew I’d had amazing opportunities given…
Time for thinking big
[ Spring 2014 ] Fellowship program spurs midcareer pros to solve big problems. On many Mondays during the 1980s, Uche Amazigo took time off from teaching at the University of Nigeria to travel into her country’s rural villages and talk…
HSPH students look to unravel the complexities of Chagas Disease
March 30, 2012 Chagas disease affects an estimated 8 to 11 million people worldwide. Caused by a parasite transmitted primarily through a bite from the triatomine, or “kissing” bug—so-called because it frequently bites humans on the face—Chagas has…
Experts at HSPH forum give views on 'unprecedented' triple crisis in Japan
March 28, 2011 -- People in Japan may look calm on the outside but they are depressed on the inside, a former Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) research fellow told an in-studio and webcast audience at a…
