Can neighborhoods hurt our health?
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] A single mother living in public housing may want to feed her children healthy food, but if the nearest affordable grocery store is a crowded bus ride or expensive taxi trip away, that goal…
HSPH students, researchers display their findings at 25th annual poster and exhibit day
May 10, 2011 -- A study measuring potential changes in the behavior of Chinese health care consumers as their household income grows took top honors among the student projects in HSPH’s 25th annual Poster & Exhibit Day, which…
Five HSPH students named Schweitzer Fellows
April 28, 2011 -- Five HSPH students have been named to the 2011-12 class of Schweitzer Fellows by The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. Raymond Deng, Ted Henson, and Mariah Rich have been named Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Sarah Dilley and Sangeeta Sakaria have been…
Why Public Health? Peter James
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Peter James, a doctoral student of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, hopes to…
Why Public Health? Zinzi Bailey
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Zinzi Bailey, a doctoral student from Jamaica who grew…
Why Public Health? Nicanor Obaldia Rodriguez
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Nicanor Obaldia Rodriguez, a doctoral student from Panama, says…
Why Public Health? Brittany Seymour
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Brittany Seymour, an MPH candidate and dentist from Colorado,…
Why Public Health? Serufusa Sekidde
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Serufusa Sekidde, an MPH candidate and physician from Uganda,…
Why Public Health? Nayana Vootakuru
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Nayana Vootakuru, an MPH candidate and physician from Australia,…
HSPH students simulate international aid negotiations
Fourteen HSPH students participated in an innovative extracurricular exercise on March 25, joining with students from other Harvard graduate schools, Boston University, and Tufts University, to simulate the high-level negotiations behind the funding of international aid packages. Representing…
