So-called “good cholesterol” is supposed to help unclog arteries, but recent research has shown there are different types and some don’t improve health, and may even harm it. Researcher Jeremy Furtado explains how he and colleagues figured it out and why some initially promising cholesterol drugs didn’t work.
Howard Koh, professor of the practice of public health leadership, discusses factors contributing to the opioid crisis and recommendations on how to curb it.
South African activist Mamphela Ramphele will serve as the Class of 2022 speaker on May 25, and CBS News medical correspondent Jonathan LaPook will address the Classes of 2020 and 2021 on May 28.
A new series of interactive web resources titled Environmental Racism in Greater Boston, produced by experts at Harvard Chan School, tells a multifaceted and accessible story, including interactive data visualizations, about disparities in environmental exposures from the regional level to the individual level.
Karen Emmons, professor of social and behavioral sciences, says that implementation scientists can bring the full benefits of scientific discovery to health, and improve cancer control, by focusing more on the policy-making process.
Over the next few months, students in the latest group of Rose Service Learning Fellows at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are launching a diverse array of field projects.
John McDonough of Harvard Chan School has taught yoga to groups of male inmates at the Suffolk County House of Corrections in Boston since the summer of 2017.
Environmental health expert Philippe Grandjean discusses the importance of regulating PFAS.
Barrak Alahmad, PhD ’22, is studying the health impacts of heat and air pollution in Kuwait.
Under Harvard Chan School’s Pedagogy Fellows program, a small group of doctoral students and postdocs helps strengthen educational activities across courses, degree programs, and departments.