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Predicting where disease will strike
Student Eleanor Murray wants to know: What if we could warn people about impending disease outbreaks, just like we can now predict the weather? January 24, 2013 (5:48) Please click the play icon above to play this podcast…
Boston declares health emergency amid U.S. flu outbreak
Coverage in Reuters, January 9, 2013, quoting HSPH's Bill Hanage
Malaria parasite transforms itself to hide from human immune system
December 13, 2012 -- In order to spread disease inside the human body, the malaria parasite must evade the human immune system—which it does remarkably well. Now, researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have uncovered details about…
World AIDS Day 2012
November 30, 2012 -- Since the early 1980s, HSPH researchers have made fundamental discoveries about HIV/AIDS and worked on the frontlines of the disease. In 1983, Max Essex provided key evidence that the infection is caused by a retrovirus; two years…
Study shows new test may lower TB rates
Coverage in the Harvard Crimson featuring HSPH's Nicolas Menzies, November 26, 2012
New test for tuberculosis could improve treatment, prevent deaths in Southern Africa
For immediate release: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Boston, MA — A new rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) could substantially and cost-effectively reduce TB deaths and improve treatment in southern Africa—a region where both HIV and tuberculosis are common—according…
Making the case to continue an innovative anti-malaria program
November 7, 2012 -- Funding at Risk for Program That Increases Availability, Lowers Costs for Most Effective Drugs A two-year-old pilot program that aims to protect the most effective drug for malaria from resistance, through a novel economic strategy…
Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe tells of 'the good, the bad, and the ugly' of microbes
October 22, 2012 -- In today’s world, where deadly viruses like bird flu or SARS can spread from continent to continent in a matter of hours and there’s real danger of a pandemic, we should all be “a…
Using cell phone data to curb the spread of malaria
For immediate release: Thursday, October 11, 2012 Boston, MA — New research that combines cell phone data from 15 million people in Kenya with detailed information on the regional incidence of malaria has revealed, on the largest scale…
Rethinking Research Biosafety for Potential Pandemic Pathogens
October 2012 -- Laboratory-modified, highly virulent strains of the H5N1 virus were recently developed in such a way that they can be passed from one mammal to another (ferrets), suggesting that the new and potentially dangerous strain might…
