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Nazmim Bhuiya, DrPH ’18, awarded Schweitzer Fellowship
Harvard Chan School student Nazmim Bhuiya, DrPH ’18, is one of 15 graduate students in the 2016-2017 class of Boston Schweitzer Fellows, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship announced July 22, 2016. The fellows will spend the next year learning…
Cost of poor child growth in developing world: $177B in lost wages for children born each year
Investing in better childhood growth would yield threefold return For immediate release: June 29, 2016 Boston, MA – Early life growth faltering in low- and middle-income countries results in a US $176.8 billion reduction in potential career earnings…
Ministerial Leadership Program to welcome education ministers
June 30, 2016—Education Ministers will be included in the Ministerial Leadership in Health (MLIH) Program, Acting Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, David Hunter announced today. With the support of Big Win Philanthropy and the…
Health ministers urged to think more like economists
June 24, 2016 – Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus called on health ministers at the fifth annual Ministerial Forum for Health Ministers at Harvard to think of health as an integral part of economic development and to recognize productive…
New report calls for science-based approach to early childhood development
Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child on May 4, 2016 released a report, From Best Practices To Breakthrough Impacts, that calls for a new era of research & development (R&D) in early childhood policy and practice in order…
High school students sample field of public health
April 20, 2016 — The field of public health provides an opportunity “to be a ripple of hope in improving the lives of others,” David Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health, told…
Students, researchers share findings at annual poster day
April 11, 2016 — Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Postdoctoral Association and Student Government, with the support of the Office of Faculty Affairs and Acting Dean David Hunter, presented a school-wide poster day on April 8,…
Students in joint School-CDC course ‘bring fresh eyes’ to public health programs
February 18, 2016 -- A unique winter session practicum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, offered in conjunction with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is giving students valuable experience in how to evaluate…
Humanitarian crises the focus of new course
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) have launched a new course for Harvard undergraduates starting in the Spring 2016 semester. The course aims to introduce students to global health theory and policy and its applications during humanitarian…
‘Blended’ online, on-campus master’s program in epidemiology offers maximum flexibility
January 12, 2016 -- Between shifts in a California hospital, on lunch break in Singapore, or on an airplane soaring over Canada, students from all over the globe are now studying epidemiology in a new Harvard T.H. Chan…
