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Teasing out the best ways to address widespread mental health problems depends on pinpointing their causes as accurately as possible. But that can be a big challenge for researchers, according to experts who spoke at a Nov. 15…
Fostering resilience in the face of adversity
The Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness’s inaugural Chester Pierce Symposium explored social factors that influence resilience and well-being.
Preventing opioid deaths requires reducing stigma, increasing treatments
Michael Barnett, associate professor of health policy and management, offered his thoughts on combatting the opioid epidemic by destigmatizing addiction and making treatment pathways more accessible.
Experts discuss women’s health, homelessness, other pressing public health issues at summit
Dozens of public health, business, and faith leaders gathered at a community bookstore in Boston’s South End on Oct. 17 to discuss innovative health solutions at a summit titled “Better Health for All: Connecting Science, Business, and Communities…
Faculty share research on mental health at ‘Public Health is Personal’ event
Faculty from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health gathered with alumni, friends, and public health allies to highlight how School is leading groundbreaking research to better understand challenges that drive mental health concerns.
To improve mental health, focus on population health, prevention
Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology and head of the Population Mental Health Lab, offers her thoughts on policies to reduce the prevalence of mental health problems.
Loneliness is hurting our health, but these policies could help
Ichiro Kawachi, the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, offers his thoughts on policies tackling loneliness and social isolation.
Experiencing gratitude associated with greater longevity among older adults
Older women who scored highest in an assessment measuring gratitude had a 9% lower risk of death, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.
‘Linear urban forest’ project aims to mitigate heat, improve health in cities
Researchers designed a “linear urban forest” and plan to quantify its climate- and health-related benefits for U.S. cities, using Springfield, Mass., as a pilot.
Opinion: More support, protection needed for LGBTQ health
Protecting and improving the health of the LGBTQ community will require more research funding to document health inequities, more training for health professionals to recognize and address the community’s unique needs, and more policies to support the equality,…
