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Tackling the asthma-obesity link in Boston communities
Inspired by concerns expressed by residents of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood—where rates of both asthma and obesity are high—researchers from the Community Outreach and Engagement Core of the Harvard NIEHS-Center for Environmental Health (COEC) organized a workshop to discuss…
Students’ meal kit idea wins innovation prize
A team led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students won this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize. Students Dan Wexler and Priya Patel, both MPH ’18, and team members were awarded $15,000 for their…
Achieving health equity in the Americas
One of the world’s leading researchers on health inequalities outlines vast disparities across the Americas—and explains how addressing the social determinants of health can help narrow those gaps.
Health effects of Jim Crow laws linger
Jim Crow laws continue to have negative effects on the health of black Americans, even more than 50 years after being outlawed, according to epidemiologists. In an April 26 Tonic article, experts cited studies suggesting that early-life exposure…
Affordable Care Act increased health insurance coverage, narrowed disparities for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
Following the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the rate of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders without health insurance dropped to 9%—a rate essentially equal to that of whites (8.8%).
Discrimination in America polls
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health released a series of polls on discrimination in America in fall 2017.
Research Dream Team to focus on multiple myeloma precursors
Lorelei Mucci, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is among the researchers participating in a new Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) Dream Team focused on revolutionizing the treatment of multiple myeloma. Stand…
Medicare program linked with reduced black-white disparities in hospital readmissions
For immediate release: April 2, 2018 Boston, MA – A Medicare program that penalizes hospitals for high readmission rates was associated with a narrowing of readmission disparities between black and white patients and between minority-serving hospitals and other…
Self-collected specimens may boost HPV screening rates in transgender patients
Female-to-male trans masculine patients (TM)—those who are assigned a female sex at birth but who identify as a male—often retain their female reproductive organs but may not get screened for the high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infection that causes…
Bullying, childhood maltreatment linked to higher teen pregnancy rates in young lesbian, bisexual women
Childhood maltreatment and bullying —possibly related to sexual orientation-related discrimination —appear to contribute to a teen pregnancy rate among young lesbian and bisexual women that is nearly double that of their heterosexual peers, according to a new study…