The legal battle over health care reform
March 16, 2012 From March 26-28, 2012, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to the constitutionality of the landmark health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read how Harvard School of Public Health researchers…
Harvard Gazette highlights groundbreaking HSPH research linking diet, overweight, and diabetes
Harvard School of Public Health faculty and other researchers across Harvard University have been at the forefront of efforts to understand and target the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes. A March 7, 2012 Harvard Gazette article highlights…
Profs. Rosenthal, Brennan named to national commission on physician payment reform
Two HSPH faculty members have been appointed to the new National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, sponsored by the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM). Meredith B. Rosenthal, professor of health economics and policy, and [[Troyen Brennan]], adjunct…
New epidemiology chair at HSPH hopes to continue department's legacy of discovery and training scientists to change the world
January 20, 2012 -- Michelle Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, began as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health in August 2011. Previously a professor…
The Water Tamer: John Briscoe tackles water insecurity around the world
“Water truly branches into all aspects of life,” HSPH Prof. John Briscoe told Harvard Magazine in a profile published in the January/February 2012 issue. Briscoe, who has a joint appointment at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences,…
VanRooyen leads Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s efforts to improve disaster response
Michael VanRooyen and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) team he directs are working hard to develop new ways to offset the miseries of humanitarian disasters. In a January 2012 Boston Magazine article titled “The Saving Game,” VanRooyen talked…
Off the cuff: Michelle Williams
[ Winter 2012 ] Is epidemiology a beautiful science? “I started to see beauty in science as an undergrad, looking at embryonic development. There is nothing more beautiful than watching a single cell turn into an organism. It contains all…
Faculty members Nan Laird, Robert Blendon, and Sarah Fortune honored
December 15, 2011 -- Nan Laird was appointed the new Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of Public Health. This honor recognizes her more than 35 years developing statistical methodology, teaching, and doing applied research. Laird succeeds the first holder of…
Eli Lilly adds Harvard professor as 14th director
Coverage on Boston.com, December 12, 2011, featuring HSPH's Katherine Baicker
Mary Ellen Avery, pioneer in medicine and public health, dies at 84
December 8, 2011 -- Mary Ellen Avery, a major figure in Boston medicine and public health whose work while a research fellow at HSPH in the 1950s led to one of the most important strategies to improve care for…
