Harvard Chan graduates urged to ‘speak truth to power’
May 26, 2017 – The message to students at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s 2017 commencement ceremony couldn’t have been clearer: In the current political climate, important public health priorities—affordable health care, a clean environment, equity…
Commencement 2017: Award winners
Each year, awards are presented to graduating students, faculty, and staff at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Winners were announced at the Commencement Eve Celebration held on May 24, 2017.
Closing the gaps
Mary Tate, MPH ’17, is studying to be an obstetrician and to help reduce disparities in maternal and neonatal health May 24, 2017 – Mary Tate remembers raising her hand in elementary school to ask her teacher, “How…
A theater major moves on to the global health stage
May 23, 2017—Soon after he left his volunteer job at Mercy Children’s Home in Togo, West Africa, Todd Lewis, SM ’17, had a moment of clarity. Then an undergraduate theater major at the University of North Carolina, he…
Improving health care delivery in the world’s poorest regions
May 12, 2017—Rahima Dosani, MPH ’17, has led efforts to increase patients’ access to vaccines and HIV testing in Malawi, and tuberculosis testing in Myanmar. Now about to graduate from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with…
Student team’s environmental surveillance system wins $10,000 innovation grant
May 4, 2017 – A real-time environmental hazard detection and notification software platform that pools data from social media and other data sources to spot brewing environmental crises and alert the public and authorities to take action netted a…
To quarantine or not to quarantine?
May 4, 2017 — During an infectious disease outbreak, is it best to quarantine those who have been exposed to the disease — who may or may not be infected — or is it sufficient to send the…
A web-based tool for detecting infectious disease outbreaks
Nicholas Generous, MPH ’17, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and his colleagues published a paper April 18, 2017 in the Nature publication Scientific Reports about a web-based tool to detect and analyze infectious disease outbreaks. Read…
Passionate pursuits
Pedro Lamothe-Molina, PhD ’17, hopes to continue researching infectious diseases while taking care of patients and racing the occasional triathlon May 2, 2017 – In 1996, Pedro Lamothe-Molina applied to medical school in his hometown of Mexico City.…
Poster Day features work of students, postdocs, researchers
May 1, 2017 – Research from 74 students, postdocs, and research associates was on display April 26, 2017 at the third annual Harvard Chan Poster Day. More than 200 filled Kresge Cafeteria to learn about research on topics ranging…
