Professional sports and health
A new study finds that pro football players appear to be at an elevated risk of death compared to pro baseball players. We’ll explore the factors that may be driving this.
High-altitude health
Flight surgeon Christopher Scheibler, MPH ’19, makes sure that Air Force pilots are healthy and that the cockpit environment is safe. He’d like to help make flying safer for everyone else, too. May 31, 2019 – If you…
NFL players die at higher rates than MLB players, but heart risks loom large for both sports
National Football League (NFL) players appear to be at an elevated risk of death compared with Major League Baseball (MLB) players, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.…
Blockchain survey lets workers anonymously speak out on health and safety
Harvard Chan School’s Sustainability for Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) worked with Levi Strauss & Co on a workplace wellness survey using blockchain technology.
At Second Annual Yerby Fellowship Symposium, postdocs present research
March 12, 2019 – The health of particular groups of people—including caregivers for children, patient care workers, and people exposed to chemicals at work—was the focus of the Yerby Postdoctoral Fellows who spoke at a recent symposium at…
Blockchain-based survey will help monitor worker welfare
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is part of a new collaboration to develop a system for monitoring worker health and safety using blockchain technology. Blockchain is a technology that allows people to quickly and securely share…
Course uses Wikipedia as tool for teaching science translation
Students taking the Introduction to the Workplace Environment course this fall updated or created Wikipedia pages as their final projects.
New manual helps companies enhance workplace health and well-being
October 16, 2017—The work environment can take a toll on health—from unsafe conditions that lead to injuries to stressful demands that contribute to cardiovascular disease. A new manual produced by the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being at Harvard…
Health and safety in the dry cleaning industry
Dry cleaning is an industry that dates back to the 1600s—when turpentine was used to clean fabrics. But now it's an industry in transition amid growing demand for dry cleaning solvents that are less harmful to humans and…
Report links welding fumes with risk of cancer
More priority needs to be given to protecting the world’s estimated 111 million welders and other workers from exposure to potentially toxic welding fumes, according to David Christiani, Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics at Harvard T.H. Chan…