'Poverty-free life expectancy' proposed as new global metric
Reducing poverty can play a key role in improving the health of people around the world. But few measurement tools have been available that enable global health experts to assess the combined effects of poverty and health on…
Achieving high quality health care around the globe
March 17, 2017 – Improving people’s access to health care around the world has been a major focus of global health experts in recent years. Now they are turning their attention to the quality of that care—especially in…
New tools developed to help clinicians predict risk of cardiovascular disease
Risk prediction models for 182 nations will help pinpoint those most at risk, even in resource-poor settings For immediate release: Monday, January 23, 2017 Boston, MA – A new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
Cost-effectiveness panel issues new guidelines
Two decades ago the U.S. Public Health Service convened a panel of non-government scientists and scholars with expertise in economics, clinical medicine, ethics, and statistics to review the state of cost-effectiveness analysis and to develop recommendations for its…
Stopping tuberculosis requires new strategy
Past decades’ reliance on biomedical solutions has not worked; ‘biosocial’ approach needed For immediate release: October 26, 2015 Boston, MA ─ Unless there is a major shift in the way the world fights tuberculosis—from a reliance on biomedical…
Reducing teen smoking in Chile
A national tobacco prevention campaign launched in 2006 in Chile that banned smoking at high schools and sale of tobacco near school grounds helped dramatically reduce smoking among adolescents, and was particularly effective in discouraging young teens from…
Painting a picture of older Africans
October 11, 2013 -- A large new study led by the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (the Pop Center) aims to shed light on how people in Sub-Saharan Africa are faring as they age, given that…
Study finds years living with disease, injury increasing globally
For immediate release: Thursday, December 13, 2012 Boston, MA — No matter where they live, how much education they have, or what their incomes are, people have very similar perceptions on the impact of diseases and injuries. This…
New test for tuberculosis could improve treatment, prevent deaths in Southern Africa
For immediate release: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Boston, MA — A new rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) could substantially and cost-effectively reduce TB deaths and improve treatment in southern Africa—a region where both HIV and tuberculosis are common—according…
Study finds intensive care cost-effective for newborns in Mexico
A new study by researchers at HSPH, working with colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine and the Mexican Ministry of Health, finds that expensive, intensive care that enables many preterm and low-birth-weight infants to survive is highly cost-effective…