Melissa Begg, Vice Dean of Education at Columbia University, to receive inaugural Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award
May 17, 2012 The Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics will award the inaugural Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award to Melissa D. Begg, ScD '89, professor of clinical biostatistics and vice dean of education at the Columbia University Mailman School of…
Accentuating the positive
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] It’s an all too common scene: A girl looks at a photo in a fashion magazine and compares the model’s thin, airbrushed figure to her own rounder shape. She tells her friend, “I am…
William Foege awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
May 10, 2012 Former CDC Director and Global Health Champion Helped Eradicate Smallpox Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) alumnus William Foege, MPH ’65, legendary for his work in the late 1970s to eradicate smallpox, has been named…
HSPH mourns Endang Sedyaningsih
May 4, 2012 Endang Sedyaningsih, MPH '92, SD '97 received her master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Global Health and Population. In 2009, she was appointed Minister of Health in her native Indonesia. Minister Endang returned…
Hollywood and health: Harnessing the power of storytelling
May 1, 2012 Twelve years ago, in a survey of TV viewers who regularly watched the show ER, only 24% had ever heard of human papilloma virus. A week later, after an ER segment on the virus, that figure shot up…
Documenting public health needs in African communities destabilized by militia violence
March 6, 2012 The militant group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has waged a 25-year campaign of fear in Uganda which has since spread to neighboring Sudan, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing…
Alumna hopes video will help stem the cholera tide
February 9, 2012 -- A new animated video about cholera—how people get infected, how it spreads, and how to treat it—is drawing attention from health workers around the globe. The video’s producer, Deborah Van Dyke, is a nurse practitioner…
New epidemiology chair at HSPH hopes to continue department's legacy of discovery and training scientists to change the world
January 20, 2012 -- Michelle Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, began as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health in August 2011. Previously a professor…
In Memoriam: Elif Yavuz, SD ’13
Elif Yavuz, SD ’13, was killed on September 21, 2013, during a terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. She and her partner, Ross Langdon, also killed in the attack, were expecting their first child. Yavuz,…
Indian health service director discusses challenges of doing more with less
December 15, 2011 -- The Indian Health Service’s limited resources are both a sore point and a strength, says its director, Yvette Roubideaux. They’re a sore point, says Roubideaux, AB '85, MD '89, MPH '97—appointed head of the $4…
