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Ebola causing trauma among children, families in Sierra Leone
Children and families in Sierra Leone are coping with “massive trauma” because of the Ebola epidemic, according to Theresa Betancourt of Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Betancourt was quoted in a December 22, 2014 Huffington Post article…
Getting to universal health coverage
December 11, 2014 — Julio Frenk is Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development, a joint appointment with the Harvard Kennedy School…
Poll finds many in Massachusetts have firsthand experience with a medical error
More than half made an effort to report it For immediate release: December 2, 2014 Boston, MA – This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the tragic death of Betsy Lehman, a health care reporter for the Boston…
To stop Ebola, strengthen health systems in West Africa
The current Ebola crisis spread quickly in West African countries, some of the poorest in the world, where health systems are poorly developed or dysfunctional. The best way to contain the epidemic is for the international community to…
Wide variation in c-section rates not explained by maternal diagnoses
Cesarean (c-section) rates vary 10-fold across hospitals in the United States, but that variability doesn’t appear to be linked to the health and medical conditions of pregnant women, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public…
U.S. hospitals prepare for Ebola
Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of International Health at HSPH, and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, has done a number of interviews with national media outlets over the last few days on controlling the spread of…
Universal health care in Latin America spotlighted
Policy innovations, recent economic growth, and a trend towards democracy have led to advances in universal health coverage in Latin America, according to Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk, T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public…
Financial well-being and health
October 6, 2014 -- A new study by HSPH’s Reginald Tucker-Seeley and colleagues found that the depletion of a family’s financial resources was a significant predictor of intensive end-of-life care. In particular, their study found that families facing…
Ebola epidemic is stoppable
The Ebola epidemic is stoppable—if health professionals use procedures that are known to be effective in quelling such outbreaks, and by widening the international response to Ebola in West Africa, according to Atul Gawande. Writing in The New…
U.S. health reform can be ‘source of inspiration’ for Canadians
Canada—which adopted universal health care about 50 years ago—can learn from U.S. efforts at health reform, according to a September 3, 2014 Globe and Mail article co-authored by Andrew Boozary, SM ’14, visiting scientist in the Department of…