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Efforts to fight cancer in the developing world highlighted in special issue of Science Magazine
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk is featured in Science magazine’s March 25, 2011, special issue on the “Cancer Crusade at 40.” The article, “A Push to Fight Cancer in the Developing World,” highlights the work of Frenk and his…
Conference calls for global focus on the burden of non-communicable diseases of the world's poorest billion
March 23, 2011 -- Ten years ago, attention given to HIV/AIDS at a United Nations special session was followed by the establishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Now, a growing chorus of public health…
Time Magazine's "Ten Ideas That Will Change the World" features HSPH faculty research
The concept of the “demographic dividend” pioneered by HSPH faculty member David Bloom and colleagues is featured in Time magazine’s “Ten Ideas That Will Change the World” published March 17, 2011. Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics…
HSPH's Connolly passionate about curbing smoking worldwide
Gregory N. Connolly, professor of the practice of public health at HSPH and director of HSPH’s Center for Global Tobacco Control, is spotlighted in the March-April 2011 issue of Harvard Magazine for his far-reaching anti-tobacco efforts. Before coming…
Little historical evidence to support cutting global health aid during recessions
For immediate release: February 25, 2011 Boston, MA – The World Bank and World Health Organization have voiced fears that policymakers will break their commitments to support desperately needed global health services in low- and middle-income countries because…
Global health news: guinea worm disease may soon join smallpox in the history books as worldwide cases dwindle
Guinea worm disease may soon be the second disease to be eliminated from the world after smallpox, Donald Hopkins, vice president for health programs at The Carter Center, told an HSPH audience on February 1. Hopkins, presenting this…
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon call for action to address chronic disease in developing countries
HSPH Dean Julio Frenk spoke on a panel about the rising burden of chronic disease in the developing world at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on January 27. The panel called for international cooperation…
Global experts convene for malaria eradication conference
Leading malaria experts from public and private institutions around the world convened for a three-day conference aimed at discussing and rethinking the future of malaria prevention, control, elimination, and eradication. The culminating session, “Rethinking Malaria: The Science of…
Professor Barry Bloom named AAAS Fellow
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), is among 15 Harvard faculty members named fellows of the American…
2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza: Perspectives on severity and response
December 2010 -- Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology, gives a presentation earlier this year about the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, discussing the challenges faced by public health professionals and the lessons learned to more effectively handle a similar outbreak…