Surgery at high-quality hospitals costs Medicare less than at low-quality hospitals
Driving patients to higher-quality institutions could lower costs, improve care For immediate release: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 Boston, MA – Patients who had major surgery at high-quality hospitals in the U.S. cost Medicare less than those who had…
Cesarean delivery may lead to increased risk of obesity among offspring
For immediate release: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Boston, MA – Individuals born by cesarean delivery were 15% more likely to become obese as children than individuals born by vaginal birth—and the increased risk may persist through adulthood, according to…
Unsafe levels of toxic chemicals found in drinking water for six million Americans
Drinking water samples near industrial sites, military fire training areas, wastewater treatment plants have highest levels of fluorinated compounds For immediate release: August 9, 2016 Boston, MA – Levels of a widely used class of industrial chemicals linked…
Medicaid expansion under ACA linked with better health care, improved health for low-income adults
Study finds similar benefits between Medicaid expansion and ‘private option’ For immediate release: August 8, 2016 Boston, MA – Two years after Medicaid coverage was expanded under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in their states, low-income adults in Kentucky and Arkansas…
Helping nations assess and manage immunization costs
July 21, 2016 -- As new vaccines are introduced—some of them quite costly—accurate information on the cost and financing of national immunization programs can be lacking. Research and a new website developed at Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
Traveling Fellows pursue research far afield
July 19, 2016 — Three students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are among the 32 recipients of the Harvard Traveling Fellowship for 2016-17. Fellowships are awarded to graduate students and recent graduates from across the University…
Off the Cuff: How Does an MPH Help an MD?
Courtesy of Carmon Davis CARMON DAVIS, MPH ’94 PEDIATRICIAN, BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Q: How has your MPH degree influenced your daily work as a doctor? And did studying the large social, political, and economic forces behind individual health…
A survivor's empathy
Angela Diaz, MPH '02, knows what it's like to overcome nearly impossible odds—and to pay forward the hard lessons she learned along the way.
Health ministers urged to think more like economists
June 24, 2016 – Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus called on health ministers at the fifth annual Ministerial Forum for Health Ministers at Harvard to think of health as an integral part of economic development and to recognize productive…
New China-Harvard-Africa Network enhances global health collaboration
June 23, 2016—Public health leaders from China and across Africa recently gathered in Boston, joining their counterparts from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for the inaugural meeting of the newly established China-Harvard-Africa Network. The vision…