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Should young children use iPads?
Experts quoted in a December 17, 2012 Washington Post article—including Michael Rich, MPH ’97 and an associate professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at Harvard School of Public Health—raised doubts about the wisdom of…
Off the cuff: Science of the spirit
[ Winter 2013 ] You are an epidemiologist who focuses on quantitative methods. Yet you study an area that seems almost unquantifiable: the intersection of religion and health. Can public health researchers, objectively study spirituality? If so, how…
Modern-day slavery: New book provides economic, historical, and legal overview of bonded labor
November 19, 2012 -- In Bangladesh, workers wade into muddy, parasite-infested waters near the Sundarban mangrove forests to catch baby shrimp that will later be processed for export. Elsewhere in rural South Asia, they toil in locked buildings,…
Interventions recommended to promote healthy behaviors among HIV-infected youth
As young people infected at birth with HIV enter adolescence and some, like other adolescents, begin having sex, it would be wise to offer interventions to promote healthy behaviors, say Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and…
Mothers’ mercury levels linked to later ADHD behaviors in kids
Article on Boston.com featuring an HSPH study and study co-author, HSPH’s Susan Korrick, October 9, 2012
Kids and violent media: next public health crisis?
Interview with HSPH's Michael Rich on WGBH News, August 29, 2012
Cartoon stickers may sway kids' food choices
Coverage in Chicago Tribune, August 21, 2012, featuring HSPH's Christina Roberto
Does just feeling fat make you gain weight?
Coverage in U.S. News & World Report, August 16, 2012, featuring HSPH's S. Bryn Austin
On the origin of American gun violence
Coverage in the Huffington Post, July 31, 2012, featuring HSPH's Ichiro Kawachi
Stressful childhood events linked to elevated inflammation in adolescence
Children who experienced traumatic events such as abuse or parental separation before age 8 are more likely to show elevated levels of inflammation at ages 10 and 15, according to a new study led by Harvard School of…