Fourteen HSPH students participated in an innovative extracurricular exercise on March 25, joining with students from other Harvard graduate schools, Boston University, and Tufts … Continue reading “HSPH students simulate international aid negotiations”
Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, a new report written by a team of researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian … Continue reading “New report suggests ways to use technology to improve aid in humanitarian emergencies”
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk is featured in Science magazine’s March 25, 2011, special issue on the “Cancer Crusade at 40.” The article, “A Push … Continue reading “Efforts to fight cancer in the developing world highlighted in special issue of Science Magazine”
About one-quarter of overweight and obese adults do not recognize that they are carrying excess pounds and, in fact, many consider themselves underweight or … Continue reading “Overweight adults who fail to recognize excess pounds less likely to eat healthy and be active”
The concept of the “demographic dividend” pioneered by HSPH faculty member David Bloom and colleagues is featured in Time magazine’s “Ten Ideas That Will … Continue reading “Time Magazine’s “Ten Ideas That Will Change the World” features HSPH faculty research”
The economic climate and demographic shifts around the globe have pushed the work of William Hsiao, the K.T. Li professor of economics at Harvard … Continue reading “Hsiao helps Vermont overhaul its health care system”
HSPH faculty and alumni were quick to respond with medical and relief expertise during last year’s massive earthquake in Haiti. But in the wake … Continue reading “In wake of Japanese earthquake, HSPH experts discuss humanitarian response, radiation risks”
Last fall, Mette Kalager, a surgeon at Oslo University Hospital and a visiting scientist at HSPH, published a controversial study that called into question … Continue reading “Experts at HSPH Forum debate effectiveness of mammograms for breast cancer screening”
In the first of a new bi-weekly column for Kaiser Health News, HSPH’s John McDonough analyzes President Barack Obama’s recent decision to give states … Continue reading “President Obama signals support for flexibility for states in implementing health law”
The Harvard School of Public Health was awarded an $8 million grant by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to launch one of four … Continue reading “HSPH awarded $8 million from EPA for air pollution research”
