Rethinking WHO: Students see a bigger role for frontline health workers
Students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and across the University came together at the Harvard iLab over the fall semester for an innovative new course—Design of Social Innovation.
Op-ed: Reported censorship at CDC could cost health, lives
According to a recent Washington Post report, senior staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were told not to use certain words in budget submissions—words like “fetus,” “evidence-based,” and “diversity.” Harvard T.H. Chan School…
Starting with a Chicken
Simone Passarelli, PhD ’20, is exploring how new breeds of chickens can reduce undernutrition and change the dynamics in Ethiopian farming families.
The Communicator's Art
In a recent interview with Madeline Drexler, editor of Harvard Public Health, Besser—a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—reflected on what he has learned about communicating the public health message.
Fierce Optimism
by Madeline Drexler Editor, Harvard Public Health Donald Hopkins couldn’t sleep... It was sometime after 2 a.m., early October 1980, at the old Hotel Chantilly, in Geneva. He reached toward the nightstand and grabbed a pen and a…
Q&A: Manhattan Project for the Opioid Crisis
Steven Beshear, a 2017 Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Chan School, spoke recently with Madeline Drexler, editor of Harvard Public Health.
Off the Cuff: Illuminating Longevity
A 2017 Lancet study led by Majid Ezzati, adjunct professor of global health, predicted future life expectancy in 35 industrialized nations.
Recent Massachusetts effort to curb opioid prescriptions may not be effective
A recent effort in Massachusetts to curb opioid prescriptions by health providers may have been ineffective, according to an opinion piece in the December 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by Harvard T.H. Chan…
Income inequality, ill health and the tax bill
Professional medical societies representing more than 560,000 doctors have voiced opposition to the Republican tax bill primarily out of concern for its potential negative impact on the health insurance market, according to a November 30, 2017 article in…
Front Lines - Winter 2018
Top stories from Harvard Chan including health effects of war, evaluating cancer risk, and sniffing out a better tuberculosis vaccine.