Sustainability efforts at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) were recognized at Harvard’s Green Carpet Awards, held April 2, 2014. The School was honored … Continue reading “HSPH’s sustainability champions bring home Green Carpet Awards”
Harvard School of Public Health nutrition researchers teamed with the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in 2013 to create the Menus of Change initiative, … Continue reading “Chefs and scientists partner to promote healthy, sustainable food”
Harvard School of Public Health Professor Jennifer Leaning joined a team from Chinese University’s center for disaster and medical humanitarian response to deliver rescue … Continue reading “Teaching survival skills in disaster-prone areas”
Because the White House’s nominee for surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, tweeted in 2012 that “guns are a health care issue,” the gun lobby took … Continue reading “Guns, public health, and politics”
Approximately one million children contract tuberculosis (TB) annually, with 32,000 suffering from a multi-drug resistant (MDR) strain, according to a new study by Harvard … Continue reading “Global child TB infection estimates doubled”
Fats have been in the news recently following a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine questioning recommendations on limiting saturated fat intake, … Continue reading “Fats: Controversy and Consensus”
K. “Vish” Viswanath, professor of health communications at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), recently was awarded two national honors. He received the Joseph … Continue reading “K. ‘Vish’ Viswanath honored for tobacco control research, mentoring”
Syrian refugees in Lebanon are experiencing the same struggles as many other groups of refugees, but their particular circumstances make social isolation a problem … Continue reading “Syrian refugees in Lebanon struggle with social isolation”
Federal policies regulating the sea of industrial chemicals we encounter in everyday life—and new ones being formulated in laboratories—are “broken” and in need of … Continue reading “Federal regulations on chemicals in environment need overhaul”
A flexible work environment that enables staff to make time for physical activity appears to reduce cancer risk in middle-aged workers, according to researchers … Continue reading “Cancer prevention: Flexible work environment, folate supplementation may be protective”