Time Magazine's "Ten Ideas That Will Change the World" features HSPH faculty research
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 Change the World” published March 17, 2011. Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics…
Global health news: Healthy, educated youths key to future of Nigeria
Nigeria must provide its burgeoning youth population with opportunities for health, education and jobs to avoid social, economic and security disaster in the next 20 years, according to the “Next Generation Nigeria” report commissioned by the British Council,…
Harvard School of Public Health economist David Bloom selected for group of global health research experts
For immediate release: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Boston, MA - David Bloom, a well-known health economist and demographer who has helped develop and popularize the notion that "health makes wealth," has been selected to join a group of…
Can students launch enterprises that turn a profit and save lives?
[ Winter 2008 ] A poor mother in Ghana looking to buy anti-malaria pills for her baby has few options. Pharmacists, if there are any nearby, may charge more than she can afford, forcing her to seek medicine from a…
