Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe tells of 'the good, the bad, and the ugly' of microbes
October 22, 2012 -- In today’s world, where deadly viruses like bird flu or SARS can spread from continent to continent in a matter of hours and there’s real danger of a pandemic, we should all be “a…
Alumni weekend 2012
October 4, 2012 -- View a slideshow of more photos from the weekend. Cold, rainy weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of the roughly 200 Harvard School of Public Health alumni, students, and guests gathered at the School on September…
Working the system
[ Fall 2012 ] As director of the second-largest health department in Washington State, Anthony Chen, MPH ’06, tackles all the issues—from infections to inequities—that shape people’s health. The elderly Taiwanese man had been Anthony Chen’s patient for…
HSPH graduates told that career flexibility key to personal, professional growth
May 25, 2012 -- In his opening message at the 2012 Commencement Ceremony on May 24, Dean Julio Frenk spoke about the importance of “career plasticity.” He quoted Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, who said, “Fortune does favor…
Commencement 2012: Gerald Chan's address
May 24, 2012 The Idea of Public Health Commencement is a rite of passage whereby the new graduates are inducted into the company of the learned. In your honoring me by inviting me to be with you today,…
Melissa Begg, Vice Dean of Education at Columbia University, to receive inaugural Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award
May 17, 2012 The Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics will award the inaugural Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award to Melissa D. Begg, ScD '89, professor of clinical biostatistics and vice dean of education at the Columbia University Mailman School of…
Accentuating the positive
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] It’s an all too common scene: A girl looks at a photo in a fashion magazine and compares the model’s thin, airbrushed figure to her own rounder shape. She tells her friend, “I am…
William Foege awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
May 10, 2012 Former CDC Director and Global Health Champion Helped Eradicate Smallpox Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) alumnus William Foege, MPH ’65, legendary for his work in the late 1970s to eradicate smallpox, has been named…
HSPH mourns Endang Sedyaningsih
May 4, 2012 Endang Sedyaningsih, MPH '92, SD '97 received her master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Global Health and Population. In 2009, she was appointed Minister of Health in her native Indonesia. Minister Endang returned…
Hollywood and health: Harnessing the power of storytelling
May 1, 2012 Twelve years ago, in a survey of TV viewers who regularly watched the show ER, only 24% had ever heard of human papilloma virus. A week later, after an ER segment on the virus, that figure shot up…