Aging, longevity the focus at annual Alumni Weekend
October 17, 2017 – Harvard Chan School alumni returned to campus for their annual weekend October 13-15, where they heard about public health perspectives on aging and longevity from a variety of experts and connected with former classmates.…
Involving youth in the design of public health programs
December 20, 2016—The online character Juliet, a middle-aged nurse, was intended to be a comforting presence on a website for Rwandan adolescent girls seeking information about reproductive health. But when a team of alumni and students from Harvard…
Making way for millennials in the health care industry
Members of the millennial generation—born between 1982 and 2004—are now the largest segment of the workforce. Health care institutions will need to adapt to keep them happy and engaged, according to an article on the website Hospitals &…
Alumni return to campus for annual weekend
September 27, 2016 —Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni returned to the School on September 23–24 to reconnect with former classmates, learn more about current research in public health, and meet new Dean Michelle A. Williams,…
Defending the ‘wonder drugs’
Antibiotics were once lauded for their impressive abilities to fight infection. Now, in an era of rampant antibiotic resistance, Harvard Chan researcher Yonatan Grad is pioneering new ways to track and control the spread of infectious disease —…
Alumni win 2016 Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize
June 28, 2016 — John Jackson, SD ’13, and Sonja Swanson, SD ’14, are the winners of the 2016 Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize. The award is given annually for the best paper published in Epidemiology in the preceding…
Commencement 2016: Alumni Council President-elect M. Rashad Massoud address
May 26, 2016 Thank you Dean Hunter. Graduates of the class of 2016, proud parents and families, honored guests, friends, esteemed faculty and staff, honorable Dean Hunter, Miss Yu Na, and distinguished commencement speaker Dr. Shalala. My fellow…
On the verge of vanquishing Guinea worm
Guinea worm, a water-borne parasitic disease that can be excruciatingly painful, affected 3.5 million people in 1986. Now there are only 22 cases left, and Donald Hopkins, MPH ’70—who has doggedly fought Guinea worm over the past two…
A Matter of Conviction
[Winter 2016] As executive director of The Innocence Project, Madeline deLone works to free wrongfully convicted people from prison using DNA evidence. Since 2004, Madeline deLone, AB ’81, SM ’84, has been executive director of the Innocence Project,…
A Calling in Cambodia
[Winter 2016] Bill and Lori Housworth uprooted their young family from Louisville, Kentucky, and moved to Siem Reap, Cambodia, to cultivate top-quality medical care in one of Asia's most impoverished areas By sunrise at Cambodia’s Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC), the crowd of people waiting for care had packed the…
