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Humanitarian training offered in Turkish, Ukrainian

The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative has collaborated on the development of online humanitarian training in Turkish, to support those responding to ongoing needs following the devastating earthquake in Turkey in February, and in Ukrainian, to support responders to the war in Ukraine.

Opinion: The benefits of banning flavored tobacco

A proposal to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in New York “can help create the first tobacco-free generation and save lives for decades to come, especially among Black New Yorkers,” according to an opinion piece by Mary Bassett and Howard Koh of Harvard Chan School.