According to the World Economic Forum’s first Human Capital Report, the U.S. ranked 43rd among 112 countries in the Health and Wellness category, which … Continue reading “Report gives U.S. low marks on health and wellness”
E-cigarettes may help reduce smokers’ exposure to toxins, but they also may cause harm, according to Vaughan Rees, deputy director of the Center for … Continue reading “E-cigarettes: potential benefits, harms”
The acrimonious politics surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, led to a government shutdown on October 1, 2013—the day the ACA’s health … Continue reading “Government shutdown and the ACA”
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk has received the Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence for Leadership in Inter-American Public Health from the … Continue reading “Dean Frenk receives award for public health leadership”
Even though flu season isn’t in full swing, now is the time to get vaccinated, say health experts. More children than ever got vaccinated … Continue reading “With flu season approaching, experts push vaccination”
Regardless of the political wranglings around the Affordable Care Act (ACA), funding public health prevention efforts must continue, said HSPH Dean [[Julio Frenk]] in … Continue reading “The ACA’s crucial prevention component”
With the launch of the new state health insurance exchanges on Oct. 1, HSPH professor Atul Gawande writes in a New Yorker editorial about … Continue reading “Obamacare and obstructionism”
In the first of a new podcast series on health reform, John McDonough, professor of public health practice at Harvard School of Public Health … Continue reading “Experts discuss political battle over Obamacare”
Karima Ladhani, a SD ’16 candidate in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health, was among several Harvard … Continue reading “Sharing passion for public health at Kenya hospital”
Coverage in The New York Times, September 25, 2013, featuring HSPH’s Orfeu Buxton