Marcia Castro named AAAS Leshner Fellow
Marcia Castro, associate professor of demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been selected as a Leshner Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Castro is one of 15 new Fellows…
Putting a human face on climate change
December 22, 2016 – Focusing on the potential health impacts of climate change—such as malnutrition, an increase in infectious and chronic diseases, and more deaths from heat waves and cold snaps—may be the best way to communicate its dangers, according…
Why Public Health? Sarah McGough
October 2016 — In our series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Sarah McGough, SM ’16, PhD ’19 is studying…
Saving Brains
In this week’s episode: The push to understand the critical early years of a child's life, plus why changes in diet may be to blame for China's epidemic of heart attack and stroke, and as the Rio Olympics…
Zika and the Rio Olympics
One expert explains why the threat of Zika at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics is actually quite low.
Zika ‘unknowns’ hampering public health response
The mosquito-borne Zika virus now spreading rapidly in several countries in the southern hemisphere—and diagnosed in a reported dozen travelers who have returned to the United States—has been circumstantially linked to the dramatic rise of a severe birth…
Intensive course in Brazil immerses students in public health fieldwork
Students from Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard College traveled to Brazil in January 2014 for an intensive-three week Winter Session course exploring public health in the world’s fifth-largest country. In addition to classwork, the students visited…
HSPH students look to unravel the complexities of Chagas Disease
March 30, 2012 Chagas disease affects an estimated 8 to 11 million people worldwide. Caused by a parasite transmitted primarily through a bite from the triatomine, or “kissing” bug—so-called because it frequently bites humans on the face—Chagas has…
