Alumni tackle health disparities
April 2, 2015 —Chicago physicians Cheryl Whitaker, MPH ’94, and husband Eric Whitaker, MPH ’93, recently returned to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public … Continue reading “Alumni tackle health disparities”
April 2, 2015 —Chicago physicians Cheryl Whitaker, MPH ’94, and husband Eric Whitaker, MPH ’93, recently returned to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public … Continue reading “Alumni tackle health disparities”
March 31, 2015 — Epidemiologist and infectious disease immunologist Mosoka Fallah, MPH ’12, has been on the front lines for many months in his … Continue reading “Coping during the Ebola epidemic—and beyond”
March 18, 2015 — Can super-tiny droplets of water sprayed at strawberries, spinach, and lettuce kill deadly food pathogens? Philip Demokritou, associate professor of … Continue reading “Food microbes beware: It’s raining nanobombs”
March 18, 2015 — People often claim to ignore advertisements, but the messages are getting through on a subconscious level, pioneering author and ad … Continue reading “Advertising’s toxic effect on eating and body image”
March 17, 2015 — The modern era of public health education is generally credited to a May 27, 1915 report by William Welch and … Continue reading “The birth of public health education”
New report recommends compensating providers for vaccine counseling March 12, 2015 — The recent measles outbreak that spread through 17 states brought the issue … Continue reading “Measles outbreaks worrying, but ‘on-time’ childhood vaccination remains norm in U.S.”
March 10, 2015 — Controversy over fluoride levels in drinking water in Massachusetts has made headlines in recent months as Cambridge, Gloucester, Newburyport, and … Continue reading “A call for reducing fluoride levels in drinking water”
March 10, 2015 — Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) is estimated to cost the European Union more than €150 billion ($209 billion) a year … Continue reading “Cost of hormone-disrupting chemical exposure in Europe in billions”
March 3, 2015 — Ebola continues to afflict West Africa, with a spike in infections reported in February blamed on unsafe burials. Infectious disease … Continue reading “Flawed Ebola response is a learning opportunity”
March 3, 2015 — Drug resistance is a major public health challenge for malaria treatment and eradication. In new research, Dyann Wirth and colleagues … Continue reading “A new twist in malaria drug resistance”