Preparing hospitals and health systems for climate change
Speaking to The Boston Globe, several experts from Harvard Chan School offered their perspectives on how hospitals and health systems will cope with continuing climate change and extreme weather events.
A call to optimize child health
A new Lancet series focuses on building a holistic global health agenda for improving child and adolescent health and development from before conception to adulthood, and to reduce inequities in access and quality of care.
Both rich and poor countries saw essential health services decline during COVID
Many essential health services—including cancer and tuberculosis screenings, HIV testing, maternal health services, and child vaccinations—declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in poor and rich countries alike around the globe, according to a new study co-authored by Harvard Chan…
Josiemer Mattei, Karestan Koenen, Margaret Kruk honored at Alice Hamilton Award lecture
Josiemer Mattei, Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of this year’s Alice Hamilton Award. She delivered the award lecture virtually on November 15.
Chan School-led research tops journal’s list of most-cited articles
A study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School researchers on disrespectful and abusive treatment of women during labor and delivery in Tanzania was the most cited paper published by Health Policy and Planning in 2018. The findings were…
Promoting safe, dignified childbirth around the world
Speakers at the recent Maternal Health Task Force symposium said that women around the world are demanding—and deserve—respectful, dignified childbirth, and providers and policymakers need to listen.
Investments in health systems needed to reduce preventable deaths
Expanding health care access must be accompanied by investments in health systems to ensure quality.
Q&A: Margaret Kruk, Improving Health Care Quality in Resource-Poor Countries
Margaret Kruk, MPH '00, associate professor of global health at the Harvard Chan School, is leading an effort to review current knowledge, conduct new empirical studies, and offer policy recommendations for improving health care quality in low- and…
Margaret Kruk, Donna Spiegelman, Paige Williams honored at annual Alice Hamilton Award lecture
Margaret Kruk was honored for her work on improving health care quality around the world at the eighth annual Alice Hamilton Award lecture on May 8, 2018, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Billions needed to prepare for global health crises, says panel
February 2, 2016 — In the wake of the devastating Ebola epidemic of 2014-15 in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people and cost about $2.2 billion, an international commission has outlined an ambitious agenda—at an annual cost…
