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A report from the WIC Health and Technology Initiative argues that there is an urgent need to modernize the program.

Bill Hanage discusses the current state of the monkeypox outbreak and efforts to control disease spread.

Philippe Grandjean discusses the EPA’s updated health advisories for two toxic compounds, PFOS and PFOA, that are found in drinking water across the U.S.

A hematology fellow from Australia, Eddie Cliff, MPH ’22, cares just as deeply about the well-being of his patients as he does about improving health systems as a whole. He’s also a writer published in the New York Times and on NPR, a Fulbright Scholar, and an advocate of healthy food and sustainability.

Harvard Chan School’s two-year-old course on homelessness and health is one of many pieces of the School’s new pilot Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH), an effort aimed at advancing education, research, and practice regarding housing instability’s devastating impacts on health.

Alexander Banks received the 2022 Armen H. Tashjian Jr. Award for Excellence in Endocrine Research for his work to standardize data analysis in obesity research.

Xihong Lin received the 2022 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science in honor of her advances in statistical methods, particularly as applied to genetics and genomics, as well as her role as a leader and mentor in the field.

Since launching Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program in 2016, Tyler VanderWeele has been building a body of evidence to help understand the state of being “in which all aspects of a person’s life are good.”

When Megan Srinivas watched what she saw as Iowa’s inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she realized she could help more people if she were at the table.

More than 500 members of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health classes of 2020 and 2021 returned on May 28 for a special Convocation.