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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…
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BPA exposure in pregnant women
Joseph Braun, research fellow in the Department of Environmental Health, discusses BPA exposure in pregnant women. November 3, 2010 (5:48) Please click the player icon above to play this podcast in your browser. Alternatively, you may download the podcast…
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A women and health agenda: It's time
[ Spring/Summer 2010 ] by Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health In today’s global health agenda, women’s experiences—from birth to death and in all their diversity—deserve to occupy center stage. Why? Because at the most basic level, we are…
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Shorter maternal height associated with more deaths among children in developing countries
For immediate release: April 20, 2010 Boston, MA -- Mothers shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches in low- to middle-income countries had about a 40 percent higher risk of their children dying within the first five years of…
Study suggests inter-generational transfer of poor health from mother to child in India
Maternal Height Associated with Child Mortality and Growth Failure For immediate release: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Boston, MA-Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a link between a mother's height and the health of…
Domestic violence associated with chronic malnutrition in women and children in India
For immediate release: April 22, 2008 Boston, MA-- In a new, large-scale study exploring the link between domestic violence and chronic malnutrition, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that Indian mothers and children…