Why Public Health? Jemila Kester
July 2013 -- In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Jemila Kester, a doctoral student in the Biological Sciences…
Making a difference while making a profit
June 6, 2013 -- Can for-profit health ventures be an effective way to improve the health of poor people around the globe? Teams of students at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard…
Why Public Health? Tzipi Strauss
June 2013 -- In our video series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Tzipi Strauss, MD, SM ’13, Health Care Management, is…
Commencement 2013: Candy Liang’s address
May 30, 2013 Dean Frenk, Dr. Brilliant, distinguished guests, faculty and alumni, parents and families: Greetings and good afternoon. Class of 2013—Congratulations! We made it! I am honored to stand in front of you today, to describe our…
HSPH graduates told to be leaders, trailblazers, changemakers
May 31, 2013 -- Addressing graduates at the 2013 Commencement Ceremony on May 30, 2013, HSPH Dean Julio Frenk spoke of how, in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, HSPH faculty, alumni, and students contributed “to what…
Commencement 2013: Award winners
Each year, several awards are presented to graduating students, faculty and staff at the Harvard School of Public Health. STUDENT AWARDS Albert Schweitzer Award Dr. Mary Mwanyika Sando, Master of Public Health Dr. Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award Dr.…
Tackling childhood obesity in communities
May 28, 2013 — At age four, Talita Jordan told her mother — a young, single parent — that she wanted to be a doctor. She stuck with the plan, becoming chief resident at Children’s National Medical Center…
Mobile app for sexual health recognized at Deans' Challenge
May 28, 2013 — A proposal for a mobile phone app to help college students manage their sexual health was named second runner-up in Harvard’s inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge, hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab…
Unequal access
Doctoral student studies social disparities and health May 28, 2013 -- Conducting research projects among mothers and infants in Brazil in the mid-2000s, Paola Gilsanz got to see firsthand the effects of health inequalities. She saw that, all…
By tutoring at local school, HSPH students enrich others, themselves
May 28, 2013 — Shemar Popplewell said it’s been a “pretty big struggle” to keep up his grades in math and other subjects at Roxbury Prep Charter School in Boston where he is an eighth grader. Sometimes it’s…
