Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Barry Bloom, 05/13/20
You're listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health featuring Barry Bloom, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and former dean of the school. This call was recorded at 12:00 pm Eastern…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Press Conference: Barry Bloom and Bill Hanage, 04/29/20
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Barry Bloom, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and former dean of the school, and Bill Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology. This…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Barry Bloom and Bill Hanage, 04/16/20
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Barry Bloom, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and former dean of the school, and Bill Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology. This…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Barry Bloom, 03/19/20
Transcript You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health featuring Barry Bloom, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and former dean of the school. This call was recorded at 2:30 pm…
A lifesaving therapy—and the researcher who helped launch it
November 26, 2018 – Oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases—is credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide. On November…
Experimental TB vaccine shows promise
A new study found that an experimental vaccine for tuberculosis (TB), an airborne infectious disease that killed 1.7 million people in 2016, provided 54% protection against active TB disease in adults. A September 26, 2018 Healio article described…
Message from the Dean: Our Frontier Mentality
This is the moment for Harvard Chan to align its formidable scholarship, inspired vision, and deep institutional engagement to take on the world’s biggest public health challenges.
Tuberculosis epidemic needs attention
In an editorial, infectious disease expert Barry Bloom of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health outlines the health system failures behind the global TB epidemic, and argues that systems’ ability to diagnose and treat TB must be…
Increase in pertussis outbreaks linked with vaccine exemptions, waning immunity
July 11, 2017 – A significant jump in the number of pertussis cases in the U.S. may be due to increasing numbers of nonmedical vaccine exemptions as well as waning immunity among those who have been vaccinated, according…
New China-Harvard-Africa Network enhances global health collaboration
June 23, 2016—Public health leaders from China and across Africa recently gathered in Boston, joining their counterparts from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for the inaugural meeting of the newly established China-Harvard-Africa Network. The vision…
