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Jerold Mande, adjunct professor of nutrition, offers recommendations for the next U.S. administration for policies around ultra-processed foods, which now make up about 70% of the items in grocery stores. Consuming these foods has been linked to a number of physical and mental health issues and early death.

Four students worked in the Mississippi Delta region over the summer on practicum projects aimed at tackling chronic disease, supporting foster youth, training community health workers, and improving maternal and infant health.

A new interdisciplinary concentration in climate change and planetary health at Harvard Chan School is aimed at preparing students to deal with the consequences of human-caused changes to the climate and the planet, such as extreme weather, the spread of infectious diseases, and negative impacts on food production.

Incoming Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students were welcomed to the School during Orientation, held August 28–30.

Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, discusses her most recent study about epigenetic aging and early life and adult exposure to racial, economic, and environmental injustice.

At a boot camp held August 15–16 at Harvard Chan School, around 60 environmental health scientists gathered both on campus and online to learn about methods and approaches for studying environmental health disparities.

Briana Stephenson, assistant professor of biostatistics, develops biostatistical models to better understand population health disparities. In this Q&A, she shares what motivates her work and the broad applications of her research.

Health policy expert John McDonough discusses how profit-focused decisions by companies including Steward Health Care, UnitedHealth Group, and drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS, are damaging medical care in Massachusetts—and how the situation might improve.

Mentoring plays a critical role in how a tight-knit group of health decision science researchers support one another and bring new people into the fold.