Orientation 2024: New students encouraged to engage across differences
Incoming Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students were welcomed to the School during Orientation, held August 28–30.
A ‘mentoring tree’ of health decision scientists continues to bear fruit
Mentoring plays a critical role in how a tight-knit group of health decision science researchers support one another and bring new people into the fold.
Science fueled by social justice
Sydney Stanley, PhD ’23, researches infectious diseases with an eye toward improving the health of the world’s most vulnerable populations
Maximizing outcomes through better decision making
The Center for Health Decision Science inspired Alan Colowick’s career, and now he’s returning the favor.
In Foundations of Public Health course, the creative sparks fly
Sue Goldie uses outside-the-box teaching techniques to give students a firm grasp of the sprawling field of public health.
At Orientation week, students kick off a school year like no other
Fall orientation at Harvard Chan School took place virtually this year.
Health disparities between nations could be eliminated within a generation
A major new report in The Lancet contends that, for the first time in human history, the current generation has the financial and technical capacity to eliminate health disparities between poorer and wealthier nations. The report, Global Health…
HPV screening: Saving lives in resource-poor nations
[Fall 2013 Centennial issue] Each year, approximately half a million women develop cervical cancer, a malignancy linked to high-risk strains of the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). In wealthy nations, cervical cancer deaths have plummeted over the six…
Modifiable risk factors linked with significant declines in U.S. gastric cancer
A reduction in two modifiable risk factors for intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma (NCGA)—infection with the bacteria Helicobacter pylori and smoking—are associated with a significant proportion of the dramatic decline in the disease in the United States over a…
Research from HSPH’s Goldie showed inexpensive techniques to combat cervical cancer cost-effective
The New York Times reported on September 27, 2011 that health care workers in Thailand are using vinegar and topical freezing to treat cervical cancer. A decade ago, HSPH Prof. [[Sue Goldie]] researched the cost-effectiveness of this and…