Nigeria must provide its burgeoning youth population with opportunities for health, education and jobs to avoid social, economic and security disaster in the next … Continue reading “Global health news: Healthy, educated youths key to future of Nigeria”
Prof. Gregory Connolly, director of the Tobacco Control Research Group at HSPH, is quoted in a Boston Globe article about tobacco advertising in Boston. … Continue reading “Tobacco companies target poorer neighborhoods with advertising”
Jay A. Winsten, Frank Stanton Center Director for the Center for Health Communication, is quoted in a Boston Globe article about the influence celebrities … Continue reading “Health communication: Celebrities can influence decision not to text-message while driving”
Sissela Bok, senior visiting fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, was interviewed Aug. 23, 2010, on NPR’s Talk of the … Continue reading “Population studies: Philosopher-author discusses the meaning of happiness in new book”
Once thought to be a problem primarily in the developed world, cancer is now a leading cause of death and disability in poorer countries. … Continue reading “Global health leaders advocate for expanding cancer care in developing countries”
On Aug. 13, 2010, a collaboration between the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), Uniwater (Monash and Melbourne Universities) and Harvard University (represented … Continue reading “Global health: Harvard and Australia join together to make water a priority”
The U.S. health care system works assiduously to save lives. The system is not as adept at helping terminally ill patients and their families … Continue reading “Health care: How can medicine help terminally ill patients and their families”
Lilian Cheung, editorial director of HSPH’s Nutrition Source, is quoted in a Boston Globe story on how U.S. and Canadian cranberry growers, faced with … Continue reading “Nutrition news: the selling of cranberries”
HSPH’s Richard Pollack is quoted in a Time magazine article about a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics calling on schools to abandon … Continue reading “Report calls for schools to adjust lice policies to keep kids in school”
A new study in the journal Diabetes by Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology, finds that adults born during China’s famine in the … Continue reading “Chronic disease news: Study links fetal nutrition and risk of high blood sugar”