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A growing innovation ecosystem at Harvard Chan School is helping students develop and launch public health and social impact startups.

The Planetary Health Diet is a sustainable, flexible dietary pattern.

The Planetary Health Diet is a sustainable, flexible eating pattern.

Ichiro Kawachi, the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, offers his thoughts on policies tackling loneliness and social isolation.

Rita Hamad, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences, shares how the U.S. can lift more children out of poverty.

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.

Liz Walat, chief financial officer, answers questions about what the University’s endowment and the School’s naming gift mean in practice.

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.