Magazine Archives

In this issue The e-cig quandry Are electronic cigarettes one of the biggest health hazards since tobacco cigarettes—or the best chance to get smokers to … Continue reading “Harvard Public Health: Spring 2015”

[Spring 2015] Alumna’s instructional videos transform frontline health care globally In rural South Sudan, the population barely tops four people per square mile. Vehicles … Continue reading “A picture of health”

[Spring 2015] [August 2015: Watch a TV interview with JP Onnela] Scientists are using cellphone data to track everything from depression and mood disorders … Continue reading “Your phone knows how you feel”

[Spring 2015] Newly redesigned master of public health (MPH) degrees and a new PhD in Population Health Sciences are coming soon to Harvard T.H. … Continue reading “Looking to public health’s future: Harvard Chan redesigns degree programs”

[Spring 2015] Sepsis kills more than half a million people in the U.S. every year. A Harvard Chan student is untangling its secrets. Katie McQuestion, … Continue reading “Unraveling a medical mystery”

[Spring 2015] Soon after the largest gift in Harvard’s history was made to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the fall … Continue reading “The story of T.H. Chan”

[Spring 2015] Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, professor of health communication, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences Q: There has been an uptick of measles, whooping … Continue reading “Off the Cuff: Making the case for childhood immunization”

In 2014, the police killings of three unarmed African-American males—Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York; Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio— sparked a national conversation on police brutality and on endemic racism in U.S. society.