Boston Marathon aftermath: Searching for resilience
Eric McNulty and Leonard Marcus of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of Harvard’s School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government, commented on resilience in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings in…
HSPH alumni and faculty part of Boston Marathon tragedy response
Harvard School of Public Health-affiliated physicians were among the hospital emergency department staff called upon to care for victims of the explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Stephanie Kayden, MPH ’06, was the senior physician…
Consumer information unlikely to contribute to lower health care costs in Massachusetts
Harvard School of Public Health experts Leonard Marcus and Ashish Jha commented on the new bill passed by Massachusetts lawmakers on July 31, 2012 aimed at controlling health care spending in the Commonwealth, in a Boston Globe story…
Former CDC director talks leadership with HSPH students
November 2, 2011 -- Always have a goal and know where you are headed, Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) students October 27, 2011.…
Dean's message: A broader view of global security
[ Fall 2011 ] The year 2001 saw not only the horrors of 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, but also the establishment of the UN Commission on Human Security. In its report to the General Assembly, the commission…
Teaching leadership to leaders
[ Fall 2011 ] The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative teaches seasoned professionals how to handle unprecedented disasters. At the World Trade Center on 9/11, the New York Fire Department set up a command center at the bottom of…
Crises responders seek to bridge gaps in emergency response
March 29, 2011 -- When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded April 20, 2010, killing 11 workers, injuring dozens and spewing thousands of barrels of oil for days into the Gulf of Mexico, the disaster was more than a…
Marcus leads disaster-readiness summit
A group of 100 Milwaukee business and governmental leaders recently role-played a terrorist attack scenario at The Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness, run in partnership with HSPH and Harvard Kennedy School's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. Co-Director Leonard Marcus is…