Research is needed to understand the mechanisms through which slower-moving aspects of climate change such as temperature variability, ecosystem shifts, and changes in precipitation affect mental health.
A new course at Harvard Chan School focuses on the history of public health, highlighting longstanding issues such as vaccine hesitancy, how life expectancy has been measured and used, tensions in the relationship between the fields of public health and medicine, and evolving approaches to determining the causes of disease.
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative collaborated with the World Health Organization to bring its humanitarian response intensive course to Jordan.
Harvard Chan School welcomed its new dean of faculty, Andrea Baccarelli, at a community reception on January 9.
Inspired by her grandparents’ care challenges, Hana Hayashi, SM ’12, SD ’16, is launching a home care clinic for the elderly in Japan—a model she hopes can be used worldwide.
At the 16th Kolokotrones Symposium, experts discussed the importance of including pregnant people when testing vaccines and drugs, the challenges of collecting data for that population, and research methods that could help fill the data gap.
Momi Afelin was inspired by her community’s commitment to preserving traditional practices and restoring the local food system to study nutrition and planetary health.
December 15, 2023 – More than a dozen Harvard University faculty, researchers, and students participated in COP28, the two-week international climate summit held this … Continue reading “Health impacts of climate change moving ‘front and center’”
At the 175th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine at Harvard Chan School, Rochelle Walensky shared major challenges she faced and lessons learned during her tenure as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Drawing on data from a 15-country survey, researchers aim to fill in what they see as a crucial gap in many health system assessments—the opinions of health care consumers.