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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.

Last month, HHR—the first academic journal dedicated to the right to health—marked three decades of publication.

Harvard Chan School is embarking this summer on several efforts to address systemic racial inequities as part of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative.

CDC Director Mandy Cohen, MPH ’04, explains how country is tackling the H5N1 outbreak

A new Harvard Chan School study found little to no utilization of gender-affirming surgeries by transgender and gender-diverse minors in the U.S.