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Public health leaders from around the world gathered at Harvard University for a week-long course to learn the latest developments from experts and discuss new strategies for eradicating malaria.

Harvard Chan School experts discuss the implications of a Supreme Court ruling limiting the EPA’s power to curb power plant emissions.

The impacts of losing the constitutional right to abortion have been immediate and widespread, disproportionately falling on people of color and poor people. The policy response to this public health crisis should be well-coordinated and extend beyond reproductive health, according to experts who spoke at a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health event.

A culture shift needs to happen in communication around public health emergencies, according to Harvard Chan School’s Elena Savoia.

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.