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New research reveals the ancestral populations of India and their relationships to modern groups
International effort is the first genome-scale analysis of diverse Indian groups For immediate release: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Hyderabad, India; Cambridge and Boston, USA--In a study published in the September 24th issue of Nature, an international team describes…
Statistics paint a changing picture
Women Breast, cervical, stomach, lung, and colorectal cancers are the most common cancers among women in developing nations. Breast cancer now surpasses cervical cancer as the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in all but the poorest nations…
Cancer is on the rise in developing countries
[Fall 2009] by Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD Dean, Harvard School of Public Health While it's well known that cancer is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, what is less recognized and understood is the significant growth of…
John Briscoe offers bold, unorthodox ideas for managing scarce water
[Fall 2009] What do people in developing nations understand about water that people in wealthy nations do not? "They understand the absence of it," says John Briscoe, newly appointed Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health at HSPH. If it doesn't…
Students target air pollution from Boston to Sub-Saharan Africa
[Fall 2009] Kathie Dionisio and Emmanuel Baja A pair of HSPH doctoral students look at air pollution in new ways. For one, the goal is to describe unique air pollution challenges in the developing world. For the other,…
Brazil proves developing countries can use generic medicines to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic
For immediate release: June 14, 2009 Boston, MA -- Brazil's nearly two-decade effort to treat people living with HIV and AIDS shows that developing countries can successfully combat the epidemic. Inexpensive generic medicines are a large part of…
HSPH assistant professor to serve as co-principal investigator of center in Guatemala to combat cardiovascular disease
Effort Part of 'Center of Excellence' Network Supported by NHLBI For immediate release: Thursday, June 11, 2009 Boston, MA -- Eduardo Villamor, Assistant Professor of International Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), will serve as co-principal…
Society is his patient
[ Spring 2009 ] Julio Frenk's arrival in January as the seventh Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) was, in a sense, a homecoming. It was in 1953 that his father, a research fellow at Boston's Children's…
Making sense of sexual violence in Central Africa
[ Spring 2009 ] Imani* was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe seized her on the road. Amid a bewildering array of competing armies, local militias, and rebel factions, sexual brutality has reached unprecedented levels…
Study suggests inter-generational transfer of poor health from mother to child in India
Maternal Height Associated with Child Mortality and Growth Failure For immediate release: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Boston, MA-Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a link between a mother's height and the health of…