A Case of Human Trafficking
[Winter 2016] A disheartening encounter with a young patient convinced physician Kimberly Chang, MPH ’15, that medical professionals can play a key role in protecting victims of coerced sex and labor. Kimberly Chang was fresh out of medical…
Alumni Awards 2015
[Winter 2016] Three outstanding individuals nominated by their peers received the School’s highest alumni honor at this year’s Alumni Award of Merit Dinner held on October 3. Hilarie Cranmer, MPH ’04 Hilarie Cranmer is an emergency physician, researcher,…
Off the Cuff: How Does an MPH Help an MD?
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 make you more or…
The importance of providing abortions
With abortion clinics closing across the country because of restrictive state laws, a Harvard T.H. Chan School alumnus argues that it’s more important than ever to ensure that women have access to abortion services. In a November 18,…
Portrait of T.H. Chan unveiled during Commencement Week
[Fall 2015] When the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health kicked off the celebration of the first Commencement under its new name this past spring, the opening event of the two days of festivities was the unveiling…
Shining a light on neglect
[Fall 2015] When Ellen Agler, MPH ’04, met Oumar three years ago in Mali, the teenager was wearing a soccer jersey—fitting attire for his favorite sport. But he could never play the game that delighted him: His legs…
Fong Clow Doctoral Fellowship Fund
The path from a rice field in China—where Fong Clow, SM ’86, SD ’89, worked during the Cultural Revolution—to Harvard University was not a common one. But thanks to some prior medical training, a rare gift for mathematics,…
In memoriam: Warren Berggren, championed health as human right
July 29, 2015 – The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health community was saddened to learn of the death on January 30, 2015, of Warren Berggren, MPH ’63, DPH ’67, who passed away in Golden, Colorado, at…
A picture of health
[Spring 2015] Alumna’s instructional videos transform frontline health care globally In rural South Sudan, the population barely tops four people per square mile. Vehicles are a rarity. And when night falls, a limitless silence descends. Despite this isolation,…
Q&A: A public health lens on police-associated violence
In 2014, the police killings of three unarmed African-American males—Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York; Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio— sparked a national conversation on police brutality and on endemic racism…
