Health and education ministers focus on leadership at annual Harvard forum
July 11, 2017 – For four intensive days in June, 16 education and health ministers from developing countries in Africa gathered at Harvard to focus on leadership effectiveness, priority setting, financing, and policy implementation. They came for the…
Unregulated economic growth could lead to irreversible environmental destruction
Unchecked economic ambition could result in irreversible environmental destruction and disastrous economic and health consequences, according to a new landmark report issued by a group of world-leading health and environmental experts, including two Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
Diabetes increasing at alarming rates in sub-Saharan Africa
Lancet report calls for decisive action to avoid severe consequences to health, economies For immediate release: July 5, 2017 Boston, MA – Sub-Saharan Africa is in the midst of a rapidly expanding diabetes epidemic that could have devastating…
Finance ministers from Africa, Latin America convene for annual forum at Harvard
May 1, 2017 – Countries with inclusive and responsive governing institutions—essentially, those that are more democratic—are also more economically successful. That was one of the messages that 15 finance ministers from Africa and Latin America heard at the fifth…
Worldwide economic burden of diabetes estimated at $1.3 trillion
The world faces a substantial economic burden from diabetes—about $1.3 trillion, or 1.8% of global gross domestic product (GDP), according to a new study from researchers at the University of Göttingen, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,…
Global economic downturn linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths
For immediate release: May 25, 2016 Boston, MA ─ The economic crisis of 2008-10, and the rise in unemployment that accompanied it, was associated with more than 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths—including many considered treatable—within the Organization for Economic…
Evaluating antenatal and postnatal care around the globe
Antenatal (ANC) and postnatal (PNC) care for women—crucial for ensuring healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and healthy mothers and babies—is the focus of several new studies involving researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The four studies,…
Global burden of mental illness underestimated
The disability and mortality that results from mental illness around the world is underestimated by more than a third, according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and King’s College London. In an article in…
Experts focus on translational science at global health event
December 16, 2015 – More than 40 national and international health leaders gathered December 10-11, 2015, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a Stakeholder’s Advisory Board (SAB) conference supporting Donna Spiegelman’s National Institutes of Health…
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…
