Infographic: Global burden of disease
[ Spring 2013 ] Our work is working… The past two decades have seen major progress in global health, according to the latest Global … Continue reading “Infographic: Global burden of disease”
[ Spring 2013 ] Our work is working… The past two decades have seen major progress in global health, according to the latest Global … Continue reading “Infographic: Global burden of disease”
[ Spring 2013 ] “Do I look like a man with a plan?” The slender young man with the radiant smile is mimicking a line from … Continue reading “A man with a plan”
[ Spring 2013 ] Prevention and early diagnosis are among the best ways to reduce costs and ease human suffering. A great example of how philanthropy … Continue reading “Philanthropy & Innovation”
[ Spring 2013 ] Breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy among Chinese women, and it’s on the rise. There were 215,600 new breast … Continue reading “Goldman Sachs supports efforts to reduce and prevent breast cancer in China”
[ Spring 2013 ] Microbes in and on our bodies outnumber human cells 10 to 1—and may determine how we get sick and stay … Continue reading “Our bugs, ourselves”
[ Spring 2013 ] |Phar • ma • co •|epi • demi • ologist: 1: A public health specialist who determines the effectiveness and safety of drugs, vaccines or medical … Continue reading “Millennium gift will redefine ranks of pharmacoepidemiologists”
[ Spring 2013 ] What are the real costs of recent and controversial energy technologies such as extracting oil from tar sands or using hydraulic fracturing … Continue reading “Tallying the true costs of controversial energy sources”
[ Spring 2013 ] The medieval system of bonded labor traps millions of workers worldwide for life. In a thatched hut in Bihar, India, amid agricultural … Continue reading “Globalization’s permanent underclass”
[ Spring 2013 ] From California’s impoverished Coachella Valley to HSPH to Capitol Hill When Raul Ruiz was growing up in California’s Coachella Valley, his parents—both … Continue reading “Dr. Ruiz goes to Washington”
In this issue The road to health and well-being How four HSPH alumni are helping Bhutan—the Himalayan home of “Gross National Happiness”—achieve its lofty … Continue reading “Harvard Public Health: Winter 2013”