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Accompanying a childhood vaccination team in a remote part of Brazil spurred Cornelius Rau, SM ’23, toward the goal of improving child health on a large scale.

Jane Kim, dean for academic affairs and K.T. Li Professor of Health Economics, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Harvard Chan School, effective July 1.

Xihong Lin, professor of biostatistics and coordinating director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at Harvard Chan School, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

The New Humanitarian, a nonprofit news organization that reports from the heart of conflicts and disasters, has been selected to receive the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s 2023 Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award.

More than 700 hackathon participants proposed technologies to build high-value health systems—which provide cost-effective care that prioritizes patients’ quality of life.

Flora Jiaxuan Xu, SM ’23, studies how building design can improve people’s well-being.

Octavious Smiley, PhD ’23, is dedicated to helping the next generation of minority students excel in the field of biostatistics.

The health-related repercussions of anti-Roma racism were discussed at the 11th annual Roma Conference at Harvard Chan School.

Briana Acosta, MPH ’23, and Yvette Cho, MPH ’24, are working to address longstanding health inequities affecting communities of color and other historically marginalized groups in roles at the Health Equity Compact, a coalition of more than 65 leaders of color working together to advance health equity throughout Massachusetts.

Many facets related to the problem of homelessness—including its prevalence, causes, relationship to health, and ways to respond—were on the agenda at a two-day conference at Harvard University in late March.