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Patient safety expert calls on health care institutions to better manage adverse events
In the seventeen years since Boston Globe health columnist Betsy Lehman died due to a medication error at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the institution has transformed its culture, according to a November 15, 2011, Boston.com blog post by…
HHS official Howard Koh stresses importance of public health work
November 4, 2011 -- Former HSPH Prof Calls Working in D.C. “Sometimes Frustrating but Absolutely Fascinating” Howard Koh spent two decades as a doctor. Working one-on-one with patients is “a noble and almost sacred experience,” he told scores of…
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Former CDC director talks leadership with HSPH students
November 2, 2011 -- Always have a goal and know where you are headed, Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) students October 27, 2011.…
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Health care in China: Progress made, more needed
China has made great progress on health care but still has much work to do. In a November 1, 2011 New York Times opinion piece, Yuanli Liu, senior lecturer on international health at the Harvard School of Public…
Ensuring health care insurance
HSPH Professor John McDonough recently spoke to The Boston Globe about his new book Inside National Health Reform. McDonough, a former Massachusetts state legislator and executive director of the advocacy group Health Care for All, worked as a…
Policy makers should prepare for major uncertainties with Medicaid expansion
For immediate release: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Boston, MA – The number of low-income, uninsured Americans enrolling in Medicaid under the expanded coverage made possible by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 could vary considerably from the…
A neurosurgeon returns to Louisiana focused on public health
October 12, 2011 -- Anil Nanda did not really need to seek a master’s degree in public health. He’s quite accomplished in his field already; Nanda is chief of neurosurgery at Shreveport’s Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, an…
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Former acting CDC head Besser discusses politics and public health with HSPH students
October 6, 2011 -- As acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the beginning of the Obama administration, Richard Besser learned the importance of balancing public health needs with political realities during a…
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Should health professionals have coaches?
Tennis pros and opera singers benefit from coaching, so why not doctors and other professionals? Atul Gawande, associate professor in health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health and a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital…
Retirees and those near retirement have different views of golden years
Pre-retirees may underestimate health, financial challenges of retirement, poll from NPR, RWJF and Harvard School of Public Health shows For immediate release: September 27, 2011 Princeton, N.J. – One in four retirees think life in retirement is worse…
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