Front Lines - Spring 2018
Quick updates about the latest public health news from across the School and beyond.
What makes us truly happy and healthy?
Multi-year Harvard research collaboration with Aetna will assess well-being across numerous dimensions of health and wholeness For immediate release: April 3, 2018 Boston, MA – What does it mean to be well? Not just “not ill,” but really…
VanderWeele, Lin honored for contributions to the field of statistics
August 11, 2017 – Tyler VanderWeele and Xihong Lin, faculty members at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, have both received prestigious awards from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), in honor of their outstanding contributions…
Focus on spiritual health could benefit patients, doctors
Evidence suggests that patients’ health and quality of life could benefit if their doctors gave more attention to spiritual health.
Attending religious services may benefit health
Regularly attending religious services appears to provide a boost to mental and physical health, according to Tyler VanderWeele, professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In a column published October 28, 2016, in USA…
Study strengthens evidence that cognitive activity can reduce dementia risk
Bias analysis shows any confounding factors not enough to account for benefits found in previous studies For immediate release: August 24, 2016 Boston, MA – Are there any ways of preventing or delaying the development of Alzheimer’s disease…
Religious service attendance and health discussed in Reddit ‘AMA’
How does religious service attendance and spirituality affect health outcomes? That will be the subject of a Reddit "AMA" on Friday, August 26.
Church attendance may lower suicide risk in women
Women who attend religious services at least once a week may have a lower risk of suicide than those who never attend services, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
This Week in Health: Religion and mortality risk
In this week’s podcast: the link between religion and health, plus preventing violence in hospitals, and how the opioid abuse epidemic in the United States is having an unintended ripple effect around the world.
Treating depression, anxiety in child soldiers pays off long-term
A study of former child soldiers and other youth impacted by the civil war in Sierra Leone shows that treating the youngsters’ depression and anxiety can have long-lasting payoffs. “We were surprised to see the large role that…