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CIFF grant supports new health leadership development program
[ Fall 2011 ] Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) will launch a unique ministerial health leadership development program next year in collaboration with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Designed for ministerial-level leaders…
HSPH AIDS Initiative newsletter features Q&A with Prof. Max Essex, profile of researcher Vladimir Novitsky
The HAI Spotlight Summer 2011 issue, produced by the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative includes the following stories: Surprise Finding in the Newly Infected In a paper published this April in AIDS, HAI researchers found that…
AIDS in 1982: Buried in the back pages
August, 1982. Robin Herman, who is currently assistant dean for research communications at HSPH, was then a metro reporter for The New York Times. She was assigned to cover a cluster of cases in New York City of a frightening…
AIDS at 30: Hard lessons and hope
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] Thirty years after the first official reports about HIV/AIDS, we look back on the human devastation and forward to a changed social landscape. The infection has killed more people so far than has any…
Dean's message: HIV/AIDS at 30: Turning the corner
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] Anniversaries compel us to reflect, to take stock, to inquire about how we can better carry out our missions. On the 30th anniversary of the first official report on what would be known as…
Carrying on the quest for an HIV vaccine
Donald Francis, SD ’79, has been in the front lines of the battle against AIDS since 1981 and was one of the first scientists to suggest that the then-mysterious disease was caused by an infectious agent. In the…
Tracking the long-term effects of lifesaving drugs
For more than 20 years, George Seage, associate professor of epidemiology, has explored the behavioral and biological aspects of HIV transmission. In September 2010, he received an $82.2 million, five-year grant—the second-largest award to the School, after the federal…
Saving lives by the numbers
In the mid-1980s, HSPH biostatistician Stephen Lagakos enthusiastically chatted up colleagues about a new mode of communicating called email. “He wondered if it would be feasible to set up email among all of us who wanted to exchange ideas about…
Fierce advocate saw HIV/AIDS not just as an infection, but as an injustice
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] Jonathan Mann, physician and advocate, pragmatist and visionary, transformed the way the world looked at AIDS. As the first head of the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS, he illuminated the intersection of…
Study finds early treatment may delay onset of AIDS
New findings suggest that HIV-infected patients may delay the onset of AIDS by starting drug therapy earlier while their immune systems are stronger. Researchers including Lauren Cain, a research fellow at HSPH, recommend that patients start treatment earlier…