Breast cancer review in U.S. fails to identify specific causes of disease
Coverage in Bloomberg, December 7, 2011, featuring HSPH's David Hunter
Former U.S. President George W. Bush visits HSPH-affiliated AIDS clinic in Tanzania
December 2, 2011 -- On World AIDS Day, George W. Bush and Laura Bush visited the new Mnazi Mmoja Center for Excellence in HIV Care and Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helped establish the…
Rosenthal's promotion to Professor celebrated at HSPH Symposium
October 20, 2011 -- Health economics may not be the most glamorous specialty in public health, Dean for Academic Affairs [[David Hunter]] told an HSPH audience gathered to celebrate health economist Meredith B. Rosenthal’s promotion to full professor, but work…
Study finds coffee craving may be in the genes
A new study co-authored by HSPH researchers has identified a genetic propensity for caffeine consumption. The researchers discovered two genes that drive people to consume more or less caffeine depending on which variation of the genes they possess.…
HSPH delegation visits Tanzania and Botswana nutrition, AIDS program
March 9, 2011 -- A delegation of Harvard School of Public Health friends and faculty – including HSPH Dean Julio Frenk and Dean for Academic Affairs David Hunter – visited HSPH programs in Tanzania and Botswana recently, meeting with government officials in both…
HSPH awarded four-year, $10.5 million grant for research on genetic risk for breast cancer
October 15, 2010 -- David Hunter, Dean for Academic Affairs and Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, is the contact principal investigator for a four-year, $10.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue studying the…
Where DNA meets daily life
[Fall 2010] The intersection of genes and the environment is the new target of public health research. Red hair is a genetically determined trait. And when redheads with Celtic roots move to sun-drenched countries near the equator, their…
Adding common genetic variants to breast cancer risk models offers only small benefit
For immediate release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Boston, MA— Scientists report that breast cancer risk assessment models, which predict a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer, do not perform substantially better when they include common inherited genetic variants…
Study finding genetic links to age of first menstrual period and menopause may add to prevention efforts against cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease
Boston, MA -- Newly identified gene variants associated with the age at which females experience their first menstrual period and the onset of menopause may help shed light on the prevention of breast and endometrial cancer, osteoporosis, and…
Newly identified genetic variants found to increase breast cancer risk
Boston, MA -- A large-scale effort to identify genetic markers of breast cancer has uncovered two common genetic variants that increase risk of the disease in women of European ancestry. The paper, published in advance online in Nature…