Science fueled by social justice
Sydney Stanley, PhD ’23, researches infectious diseases with an eye toward improving the health of the world’s most vulnerable populations
Maximizing outcomes through better decision making
The Center for Health Decision Science inspired Alan Colowick’s career, and now he’s returning the favor.
In Foundations of Public Health course, the creative sparks fly
Sue Goldie uses outside-the-box teaching techniques to give students a firm grasp of the sprawling field of public health.
At Orientation week, students kick off a school year like no other
Fall orientation at Harvard Chan School took place virtually this year.
Health disparities between nations could be eliminated within a generation
A major new report in The Lancet contends that, for the first time in human history, the current generation has the financial and technical capacity to eliminate health disparities between poorer and wealthier nations. The report, Global Health…
HPV screening: Saving lives in resource-poor nations
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] Each year, approximately half a million women develop cervical cancer, a malignancy linked to high-risk strains of the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). In wealthy nations, cervical cancer deaths have plummeted over the six…
Modifiable risk factors linked with significant declines in U.S. gastric cancer
A reduction in two modifiable risk factors for intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma (NCGA)—infection with the bacteria Helicobacter pylori and smoking—are associated with a significant proportion of the dramatic decline in the disease in the United States over a…
Research from HSPH’s Goldie showed inexpensive techniques to combat cervical cancer cost-effective
The New York Times reported on September 27, 2011 that health care workers in Thailand are using vinegar and topical freezing to treat cervical cancer. A decade ago, HSPH Prof. [[Sue Goldie]] researched the cost-effectiveness of this and…
Study finds intensive care cost-effective for newborns in Mexico
A new study by researchers at HSPH, working with colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the Mexican Ministry of Health, finds that expensive, intensive care that enables many preterm and low-birth-weight infants to survive is highly cost-effective…
Two HSPH professors honored with election to Institute of Medicine for their scientific contributions
Boston, MA -- Two members of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a national resource for independent, scientifically informed analysis and recommendations on human health issues. Election…