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HSPH delegation visits Tanzania and Botswana nutrition, AIDS program
March 9, 2011 -- A delegation of Harvard School of Public Health friends and faculty – including HSPH Dean Julio Frenk and Dean for Academic Affairs David Hunter – visited HSPH programs in Tanzania and Botswana recently, meeting with government officials in both…
Global health news: guinea worm disease may soon join smallpox in the history books as worldwide cases dwindle
Guinea worm disease may soon be the second disease to be eliminated from the world after smallpox, Donald Hopkins, vice president for health programs at The Carter Center, told an HSPH audience on February 1. Hopkins, presenting this…
Professor Barry Bloom named AAAS Fellow
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), is among 15 Harvard faculty members named fellows of the American…
Killing deer not the answer to reducing Lyme Disease, says HSPH scientist
November 23, 2010 -- Andover and Dover are among towns in Massachusetts and throughout New England that introduced or expanded limited deer hunting this fall, in large part to help curb the spread of tick-borne Lyme disease. Prevalence…
Institute of Medicine Head Harvey Fineberg discusses growing disease burden in developing nations
Scarce health resources in the developing world are being increasingly stretched by the growing challenge of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases, while infectious diseases and neglected tropical diseases also demand new attention, former HSPH Dean Harvey Fineberg,…
Infectious disease: HPV vaccine appears to be cost-effective way to prevent anal cancer in young males
Jane Kim, assistant professor of health decision science at HSPH, is the author of a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on the cost-effectiveness of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in young men and teen boys. Kim was…
Report calls for schools to adjust lice policies to keep kids in school
HSPH’s Richard Pollack is quoted in a Time magazine article about a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics calling on schools to abandon strict no-nits policies that keep children out of class. Pollack is a research associate…
Global health news: Misconceptions about AIDS
The 18th International AIDS conference takes place July 18-23. In an op-ed for Reuters, AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin, a lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Population, discusses four misconceptions about the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Link to…
Tuberculosis researcher Sarah Fortune receives clinical scientist development award
July 2, 2010 -- Sarah Fortune, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases, has been selected to receive a Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The goal of the CSDA is to encourage the…
AIDS drug combinations given to pregnant women block 99 percent of HIV transmission to breastfed babies
Findings in Botswana Study Suggest Women Taking Antiretroviral Drug Combinations Can Breastfeed Safely For immediate release: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Boston, MA — An international clinical trial led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)…
