Curtis Huttenhower, associate professor of computational biology and bioinformatics, has been named winner of the 2015 Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational … Continue reading “Curtis Huttenhower wins top junior faculty award in bioinformatics”
Tune in tonight, Tuesday, February 10, to see Atul Gawande, professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School … Continue reading “Gawande discusses end-of-life care tonight on Frontline”
Howard Koh, professor of the practice of public health leadership at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, received a 2015 National Leadership Award … Continue reading “Howard Koh honored for tobacco and drug prevention efforts”
A new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health co-authored study provides further evidence linking both arsenic poisoning and the chronic respiratory disease cystic … Continue reading “Cystic fibrosis and arsenic poisoning linked to same damaged protein”
Problems related to surgery—mostly from surgical wound infections—are the most common reason that people wind up readmitted to the hospital, according to a new … Continue reading “Surgical complications are top reason for hospital readmissions”
After helping bring international attention to an emerging polio epidemic in Syria, Annie Sparrow, MPH ’04, has been working for the past year to … Continue reading “Fighting to end polio in Syria”
Stephen Gilman, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was appointed acting chief of the Health Behavior … Continue reading “Stephen Gilman appointed to head NICHD branch”
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk has been elected to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation board of trustees. Frenk has led … Continue reading “Dean Julio Frenk elected to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation board of trustees”
More than half of people living in four of the world’s poorest countries could be newly at risk for malnutrition if bees and other … Continue reading “Bee decline could increase malnutrition and disease risk”
Young girls who drink lots of sugary beverages—such as soda and other drinks with added sugar—may start their first menstrual periods earlier than girls … Continue reading “Sugary drinks linked with earlier menstruation”