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Experts focus on translational science at global health event
December 16, 2015 – More than 40 national and international health leaders gathered December 10-11, 2015, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for a Stakeholder’s Advisory Board (SAB) conference supporting Donna Spiegelman’s National Institutes of Health…
Climate change altering migration of disease-carrying bugs
Germs, mosquitoes, and other disease carrying bugs that normally are killed by cold weather are thriving in parts of the world that are warmer due to climate change, according to Francesca Dominici, professor of biostatistics and senior associate…
In pursuit of an elusive foe
The bacteria that cause tuberculosis are experts at survival, allowing the disease to persist even when faced with the immune system and drugs. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Sarah Fortune is on a mission to figure out…
Toenail, hair samples hold clues to diseases
Toenail clippings from over 100,000 people are among the 3.5 million samples of blood, plasma, urine, hair, and other specimens donated by participants in the nearly 40-year-old Nurses’ Health Study and several other large cohort studies that continue…
How racism impacts health
November 3, 2015 — Public health professionals must not be afraid to use the word “racism” when they see health inequities linked to issues like poverty, segregation, and lack of access to care, Mary Travis Bassett, commissioner of…
Personal microbiomes shown to contain unique ‘fingerprints’
A new application of a classic algorithm uniquely identifies individuals based on their bacterial “companions” For immediate release: May 11, 2015 Boston, MA – A new study shows that the microbial communities we carry in and on our bodies—known…
Curtis Huttenhower wins top junior faculty award in bioinformatics
Curtis Huttenhower, associate professor of computational biology and bioinformatics, has been named winner of the 2015 Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology. The prize recognizes early or mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational…
Drones may be boon to public health research
From tracking changes in landscapes and animal behavior that could be linked to disease transmission, to hunting for survivors in the wake of a humanitarian disaster, aerial drones are proving an effective tool in public health research. Nathan…
The ‘incredible possibilities’ of big data
October 27, 2014 -- When Kent Walker’s mother-in-law was diagnosed with a type of brain cancer initially deemed incurable, Walker’s 17-year-old daughter began scouring the Internet for information that might help her grandmother’s cause. She came across an ongoing…
Digging for research gold in electronic medical records
September 25, 2014 — For scientists who study rare diseases, hospitals’ vast data banks hold tantalizing potential. Access to anonymized electronic medical records allows researchers to track the progress of a larger group of patients than would be…
