Why ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the U.S.
A panel of faculty and students delved into the potential causes of increasing "deaths of despair"—deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide.
Off the Cuff: Public Health Shortchanged
The country’s public health expenditures are projected to fall to 2.4 percent of total health expenditures by 2023, putting us embarrassingly behind our peers.
Opinion: Reframe gun violence as preventable disease
When tackling gun violence, American cities should view it through a public health lens, according to Dean Michelle Williams of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Women are America's 'supermajority'
In this week’s episode, we share a conversation with Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood and one of the founders of Supermajority.
Exploring solutions to the opioid epidemic
Nearly 100 researchers, health professionals, policymakers and community members gathered in Ypsilanti, Michigan on Friday, May 10, 2019 for a daylong summit, cosponsored by Harvard University and the University of Michigan, aimed at finding scalable solutions to the…
Challenging the status quo in global health
Speakers at the Decolonizing Global Health conference questioned the ways that global health is taught and practiced, from the scholars studied in classes to the agendas set by mega-funders like Bill Gates.
Health effects of inequality
Mary Bassett became director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights on September 1. She previously served as commissioner of the New…
A public health wish list
Ensuring clean drinking water, boosting cancer screening, providing incentives aimed at healthy eating, and addressing socioeconomic factors that affect health such as housing and insurance are some of the measures that should be emphasized to improve public health,…