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Health policy news: Creating affordable global health workforce targets
July 20, 2010 -- Global health workforce targets set by the World Health Organization are unrealistic for many low-income developing countries, according to an article in the July 2010 issue of Health Affairs by Harvard School of Public…
Report proposes new research agenda on pregnancy intentions of HIV-positive women in resource-limited settings
Stronger Evidence Base Needed for Researchers, Program Implementers, Policymakers and Advocates For immediate release: Tuesday, July 14, 2010 Boston, Massachusetts – A report issued by the Program on International Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of…
Global health news: HSPH alum leads Afghanistan public health ministry
Dr. Suraya Dalil, who graduated from HSPH with a master's in health care management in 2005, serves as Acting Minister of Public Health in Afghanistan. Dalil, who attended medical school in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, returned to…
More than two billion people worldwide lack access to surgical services
Operating Theatres and Essential Surgical Equipment Often Unavailable in Developing Regions For immediate release: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Boston, MA -- More than two billion people worldwide do not have adequate access to surgical treatment, according to a…
AIDS drug combinations given to pregnant women block 99 percent of HIV transmission to breastfed babies
Findings in Botswana Study Suggest Women Taking Antiretroviral Drug Combinations Can Breastfeed Safely For immediate release: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Boston, MA — An international clinical trial led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)…
Infectious disease: lessons learned from H1N1 pandemic
June 14, 2010 -- For the next new infectious threat—or the next phase of the ongoing H1N1 influenza pandemic—public health decision makers need better data about who’s infected and who’s severely sick. And they need it sooner, said…
Changing the cycle of family abuse in India and South Asia
[ Spring/Summer 2010 ] Child Brides, Child Mothers, Child Victims It’s a tale of two siblings that plays out hundreds of thousands of times every year in rural India. While her older brother completes his education and is…
A women and health agenda: It's time
[ Spring/Summer 2010 ] by Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health In today’s global health agenda, women’s experiences—from birth to death and in all their diversity—deserve to occupy center stage. Why? Because at the most basic level, we are…
Bridging a cultural divide
[Winter 2010] Are better tools needed to identify emotional distress in non-Western refugees? More than 17,000 Iraqi refugees arrived in the United States in 2009, carrying the deep physical and emotional scars of war. Many are widows with…
Republic of Cyprus commits $8.8 million to the Harvard School of Public Health to strengthen public health partnership in Cyprus
For immediate release: Monday, October 5, 2009 Boston, MA - The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) signed an agreement on October 2, 2009, to strengthen and streamline the existing collaboration…