Alumni award winners: What we know now
[ Winter 2011] We asked this year’s winners James Dalen, Fernando Guerra, Lynn Rosenberg, and David Schottenfeld: What do you know now about improving the public’s health that you didn’t when you started out in your career? James Dalen, SM '72 “The people are…
Alumni weekend 2010
[ Winter 2011] Friends and Colleagues Gather from around the World In a festive annual reunion, more than 100 Harvard School of Public Health alumni returned to the School on September 24–26 to reconnect with former classmates, network, and…
Shattuck International House: Nurturing an extended family
[ Winter 2011] With no room left at his cousin’s house, Punyamurtula Kishore, MPH ’79, went searching for someplace to live in Boston. Kishore was a surgeon who had come from India to pursue his master’s degree at the…
Global health news: HSPH alum on the challenges of leading Afghanistan's public health efforts
Dr. Suraya Dalil, who graduated from HSPH with a masters in health care management in 2005, serves as Acting Minister of Public Health in Afghanistan. Dalil, who attended medical school in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, returned to…
Global health: Flood illuminates the struggles of Pakistan's women
September 22, 2010 -- The scene that confronted Nabeel Zafar, MPH ’10, in southern Pakistan’s flood-ravaged Khairpur district was devastating. While visiting displaced persons camps on a medical aid mission, he and his fellow physicians found hundreds of…
Rebuilding shattered lives
[Fall 2010] When an earthquake struck in Chile, HSPH alum Karen Anderson and the community health group she founded were the first on the scene—and they’re still there. At 3:34 a.m. on February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude…
From patient to public health leader
[ Spring/Summer 2010 ] Indian Health Services Director Yvette Roubideaux is on a quest to improve American Indian health. As a child in Rapid City, South Dakota, Yvette Roubideaux, MD, MPH’97, used to fill her bag with books whenever she…
Combatting the health consequences of poverty and stress
[Fall 2009] Couple's combined expertise forges new directions for treatment On their way to school one morning, two middle-school boys skirted a crime scene where a high-schooler lay dead, shot just a few minutes earlier while waiting at…
Alumni Award of Merit Winners 2009
[Fall 2009] Scientific Pioneers, Inspirational Teachers Call them pioneers for delving into unexplored research areas. Call them conventional-wisdom busters for proving that common health risks can be limited or eliminated. Or call them mentors who challenge students and…
The cost of South Africa's misguided AIDS policies
[ Spring 2009 ] The human cost of South Africa's misguided AIDS policies AIDS activists and researchers argued for years that the negligent HIV/AIDS policies of former South African President Thabo Mbeki were causing a massive, unconscionable loss of human life. Now,…