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Working with homeless women teaches student valuable lessons
December 16, 2015 — As an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal, Anvita Kulkarni, SM ’16, had a passion for social justice and health equity. Two years ago, she stumbled across an online course, Health and Society, taught…
Law enforcement-related deaths discussed in reddit ‘AMA’
Why should law enforcement-related deaths be treated as a public health issue? Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, discussed that topic during a reddit “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) on Thursday, December 17. In a recent paper, Krieger and her research team…
Eliminating ‘food deserts’ not best strategy for reducing diet quality disparities
Efforts to improve diet quality in the U.S. and decrease disparities should not be focused on eliminating “food deserts”— areas with mostly low-income residents that lack access to a supermarket or large grocery store — according to researchers…
Call for police killings, police deaths to be reported as notifiable weekly public health data
For immediate release: December 8, 2015 Boston, MA – Although no reliable official data currently exist on the number of law enforcement-related deaths each year in the U.S., counting these deaths can and should be done because the…
Pathway to prison often paved with unfair labels, misdiagnosis
November 18, 2015 – The road to incarceration and social isolation in the U.S. often begins when a child is labeled a troublemaker by a teacher or is diagnosed with a mental illness that may or may not…
How racism impacts health
November 3, 2015 — Public health professionals must not be afraid to use the word “racism” when they see health inequities linked to issues like poverty, segregation, and lack of access to care, Mary Travis Bassett, commissioner of…
Stopping tuberculosis requires new strategy
Past decades’ reliance on biomedical solutions has not worked; ‘biosocial’ approach needed For immediate release: October 26, 2015 Boston, MA ─ Unless there is a major shift in the way the world fights tuberculosis—from a reliance on biomedical…
Physicians must play a greater role in social justice
Physicians need to step up their role in safeguarding human and civil rights because failure to do so can threaten the health and even the lives of individuals facing political persecution, social strife, racial discrimination, or other forms…
Racial bias and its effect on health care
August 12, 2015 -- Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health in the U.S. isn’t just the job of the health care sector—it’s the job of society as a whole, argues David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura…
Community marks one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death
On Monday, August 10, students, faculty, and staff at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health marked the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri.
