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Indian health service director discusses challenges of doing more with less
December 15, 2011 -- The Indian Health Service’s limited resources are both a sore point and a strength, says its director, Yvette Roubideaux. They’re a sore point, says Roubideaux, AB '85, MD '89, MPH '97—appointed head of the $4…
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis advises HSPH students on public sector leadership
November 28, 2011 -- “Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t make a difference in public service,” former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis told an audience of HSPH students. Dukakis came to HSPH on November 17, 2011, as…
Ministerial Leadership in Health Program launches
November 22, 2011 -- Dean Julio Frenk, together with South African Deputy President the Hon. Kgalema Motlanthe, launched the new Ministerial Leadership in Health Program at a high-profile event in Pretoria, South Africa, on November 4, 2011, attended…
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.…
Teaching leadership to leaders
[ Fall 2011 ] The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative teaches seasoned professionals how to handle unprecedented disasters. At the World Trade Center on 9/11, the New York Fire Department set up a command center at the bottom of…
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…
White House gives boost to national mentoring efforts
For immediate release: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Washington, DC – The President and First Lady Michelle Obama will give a tremendous boost today to the national movement to recruit volunteer mentors to help transform the lives of America’s…
Support a Health Rights movement
Forty-four years after Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, egregious racial and ethnic inequities persist in health status and health care. As vigorously documented by the Institute of Medicine’s sentinel 2002 report, Unequal Treatment, the life-expectancy…