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Howard Koh honored for tobacco and drug prevention efforts
Howard Koh, professor of the practice of public health leadership at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, received a 2015 National Leadership Award from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) on February 5, 2015. Presented during…
Cystic fibrosis and arsenic poisoning linked to same damaged protein
A new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health co-authored study provides further evidence linking both arsenic poisoning and the chronic respiratory disease cystic fibrosis (CF) to damage in the CFTR protein. An examination of arsenic-exposed patients in…
Fighting to end polio in Syria
After helping bring international attention to an emerging polio epidemic in Syria, Annie Sparrow, MPH '04, has been working for the past year to help the country’s medical workers learn to diagnose and treat the disease. An Australian-born…
Dangerous pathogen research should be stopped—for good
Research on extremely dangerous pathogens—on “pause” in the U.S. as scientific panels consider whether or not to continue federal funding for such work—should be stopped altogether, says Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for…
Hotamisligil to receive Endocrine Society’s 2015 Laureate Award
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism, chair of the Department of Molecular Metabolism, and principal investigator of the Sabri Ülker Center at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been selected to receive…
African countries could pay greater share of HIV/AIDS funding
As economies improve in sub-Saharan Africa, the region’s 12 countries could cover more of the funding for HIV/AIDS programs, according to a new analysis by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health lecturer Stephen Resch and colleagues at…