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Navigating health on the information superhighway
[Fall 2009] Researcher removes roadblocks for people with limited income and literacy With debate over unequal access to health care raging in the U.S., one place where the racial and economic divide in health is greatest is getting…
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…
PBS series on health disparities featuring HSPH faculty and alumni wins broadcast journalism equivalent of Pulitzer Prize
For immediate release: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Boston, MA -- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty and alumni are featured in a PBS series on health disparities selected for an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for excellence in…
Harvard School of Public Health economist David Bloom selected for group of global health research experts
For immediate release: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Boston, MA - David Bloom, a well-known health economist and demographer who has helped develop and popularize the notion that "health makes wealth," has been selected to join a group of…
Researchers estimate lives lost due to delay in antiretroviral drug use for HIV/AIDS in South Africa
For immediate release: Monday, October 20, 2008 Boston, MA - More than 330,000 lives were lost to HIV/AIDS in South Africa from 2000 and 2005 because a feasible and timely antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program was not implemented, assert…
Health discrimination
Michelle Mello, Professor of Law and Public Health, on whether insurers and employers can discriminate against people on the basis of personal health behaviors. (September 2008, 11:57) Please click the player icon above to play this podcast in…
Advice to the next president: 7 ways to fight health inequities
For immediate release: June 18, 2008 Boston, MA- In a series of opinion pieces and two-minute videos, seven Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty offer "Advice to the Next President: 7 Ways to Fight Health Inequities." The…
Champion social and economic equality
If you want to narrow health inequities, be bold. The most practical action you can take is not narrow incrementalism, but to spark wide-reaching initiatives to reduce U.S. socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities while also promoting public health.…
Support a Health Rights movement
Forty-four years after Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, egregious racial and ethnic inequities persist in health status and health care. As vigorously documented by the Institute of Medicine’s sentinel 2002 report, Unequal Treatment, the life-expectancy…
Desegregate our healthcare system
If we as a nation are truly committed to putting our legacy of racial segregation behind us, one place to begin is our health care system. While the reasons for lower health status for racial and ethnic minorities…