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March 6, 2019 – If you’re talking to a person who’s skeptical about climate change, should you argue with them about scientific evidence? Maybe … Continue reading “How to talk to a climate skeptic”

March 6, 2019 – Using artistic tools like music, storytelling, photos, and multimedia could be a powerful way to promote healing as well as … Continue reading “Musician Esperanza Spalding tunes in to the intersection of art and public health”

Pooling doctors’ diagnoses could improve diagnostic accuracy, study finds March 4, 2019 – It’s estimated that about 12 million people in the U.S. are … Continue reading “The doctors will see you now”

Staff, faculty, and academic appointees who reached key anniversaries in their service at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health last year were honored at the 20th Annual “Celebration with the Stars” event.

During Black History Month, plasma screens throughout the School shared a special slideshow honoring 11 black alumni from recent decades.

Speakers at the Decolonizing Global Health conference questioned the ways that global health is taught and practiced, from the scholars studied in classes to the agendas set by mega-funders like Bill Gates.

Mary Bassett became director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights on September 1. She previously served as commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

February 5, 2019 —A new article by Lindsay Jaacks, assistant professor of global health at Harvard Chan School, and co-authors present for the first … Continue reading “The stages of an obesity epidemic”

January 23, 2019—The burden of colorectal cancer is staggering. In 2018, it was the third-most common diagnosed cancer among both men and women in … Continue reading “To stop colon cancer, new study looks to the microbiome”

The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems calls for global cooperation and commitment to shift diets toward healthy, largely plant-based patterns; make large reductions in food loss and waste; and implement significant sustainability improvements in food production practices.