Reducing health inequities in the Mississippi Delta
Four students worked in the Mississippi Delta region over the summer on practicum projects aimed at tackling chronic disease, supporting foster youth, training community health workers, and improving maternal and infant health.
Orientation 2024: New students encouraged to engage across differences
Incoming Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students were welcomed to the School during Orientation, held August 28–30.
A ‘mentoring tree’ of health decision scientists continues to bear fruit
Mentoring plays a critical role in how a tight-knit group of health decision science researchers support one another and bring new people into the fold.
At climate summit, students from around the world focus on action
Students from the U.S. and beyond took a deep dive into issues of climate change, equity, and public health at an annual weeklong summit at Harvard Chan School.
Students reflect on Intensive Summer Course on Migration and Refugee Studies
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Intensive Summer Course on Migration and Refugee Studies offers students the opportunity to step outside of a traditional classroom and engage both conceptually and practically with key issues in contemporary migration,…
High-volume prosthetics nonprofit wants to hear from its patients
Alex Boyle and Aashna Shah, both MPH ’24, helped a nonprofit in India, Jaipur Foot, improve its patient feedback process while learning valuable lessons for their own public health careers.
Once a malaria patient, student now has sights set on stopping the deadly disease
Cyrianne Keutcha, PhD ’25, has been around malaria all her life, from growing up in a malaria-endemic country, to being infected herself, and now to studying the parasite in the lab.
Graduation 2024: Award winners
Each year, awards are presented to graduating students, faculty, and staff at Harvard Chan School. Winners were announced at a celebration held in the Kresge cafeteria on May 21.
Providing compassionate care to marginalized people
As a medical resident in Toronto, Jeremy Cygler, MPH-45 ’24, saw firsthand how the health care system failed vulnerable patients.
Evaluating nutrition policies to reduce inequities
Matt Lee, PhD ’24, balanced his work evaluating nutrition policies with performances in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra.
