Mobility data can be potent tool in fighting COVID-19
Location and mobility data collected through apps and smartphones can play an important role in measuring the impact of social distancing efforts and refining interventions to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a March 23, 2020 letter in Science…
The education of occupational health pioneer Alice Hamilton
Joseph Brain, Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke about his new book, The Education of Alice Hamilton.
Q&A: The fits and starts of science
Robert Farese, Jr., chair of the Department of Molecular Metabolism, discusses his new research, the fits and starts of doing science, and his first full year as department chair.
Harvard Chan School faculty recognized among world’s most influential researchers
More than 30 faculty members affiliated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have been named among the world’s most influential researchers over the past decade. The annual list of Highly Cited Researchers from the Web of…
School welcomes new faculty
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health welcomed nine new faculty members for the fall semester.
Op-ed: Celebrating Alice Hamilton, who pioneered national safety standards
At only 5 foot 3 inches, Alice Hamilton may have seemed innocuous in her dark tweeds, but as she sought in the early 20th century to assess the health of workers in factories that produced lead, explosives, coal,…
Benjamin Sommers elected to National Academy of Medicine
Health policy expert Benjamin Sommers of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
In Memoriam: Marc Mitchell
In Memoriam | Marc Mitchell Marc Mitchell passed away suddenly on June 25 while hiking in Alaska. He was 70. Mitchell was a lecturer in global health at Harvard Chan School for 20 years, where he taught and…
Faculty News
AWARDS & HONORS Caroline Buckee, associate professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, received the 2019 Alice Hamilton Award at a ceremony at the School in April. Presented by the Committee on…
Michael Mina earns NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is a recipient of an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award.