February 12, 2018 – A desire to air concerns about possible negative impacts of the national and international political climate on the health of vulnerable populations, ranging from refugees to Native Americans, inspired Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health doctoral students Circe Jennifer Gray Le Compte and Dani Poole to put out a request for articles for the Winter 2017-18 edition of the Harvard Public Health Review (HPHR). Le Compte and Poole, co-editors-in-chief of the School’s student journal, spoke January 30, 2018 at a launch celebration for the new edition. Students, staff, and faculty attended the event, held in the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB) Atrium.
“We decided we needed a whole volume to address what’s happening in the world,” Le Compte said.
Le Compte credited Andrew Boozary, SM’14, now a visiting scientist in the Department of Health Policy and Management, for spearheading the launch of the publication when he was a student at the School. Since the first issue in May 2014, the journal has published eight volumes, four special commentaries, and featured over 50 articles by 75 authors.
The articles in the new HPHR issue are:
Protecting the Public Health of Indian Tribes: The Indian Child Welfare Act,
Joaquin R. Gallegos, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and Kathryn E. Fort, Michigan State University College of Law
Reimagining Community Resilience with Health in All Policies, Madeline Morcelle, MPH’16, Staff Attorney, Network for Public Health Law – Western Region and Research Scholar, Center for Public Health Law and Policy, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Addressing HIV/AIDS Within a New Administration, Ulysses Burley III, who served on the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Odds, Arcs & Policy Change: A Look at a Public Health Campaign Taking on the Dietary Supplements Industry, S. Bryn Austin, Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard Chan School
Refugee Resettlement: An Important but Neglected Part of Global Health, Sumit Agarwal, MPH Candidate, Harvard Chan School, and Fellow in General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Brexit and Health: A Tragedy of Errors, Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard Chan School, and Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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New student-led public health publication looks for an edge (Harvard Chan School news)
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