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Zeroing in on health inequality through a public health lens
April 28, 2016 — Growing up in Montana, Hank Rosen became aware at a young age of the small sliver of circumstance that can separate a healthy and an unhealthy life. He made countless visits to the legislative…
Health disparities between blacks and whites run deep
Being a person of color in America is bad for your health. That’s the theme of a new op-ed written by David Williams and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
A Matter of Conviction
[Winter 2016] As executive director of The Innocence Project, Madeline deLone works to free wrongfully convicted people from prison using DNA evidence. Since 2004, Madeline deLone, AB ’81, SM ’84, has been executive director of the Innocence Project,…
A Case of Human Trafficking
[Winter 2016] A disheartening encounter with a young patient convinced physician Kimberly Chang, MPH ’15, that medical professionals can play a key role in protecting victims of coerced sex and labor. Kimberly Chang was fresh out of medical…
Working with homeless women teaches student valuable lessons
December 16, 2015 — As an undergraduate at McGill University in Montreal, Anvita Kulkarni, SM ’16, had a passion for social justice and health equity. Two years ago, she stumbled across an online course, Health and Society, taught…
Off the Cuff: How Does an MPH Help an MD?
CARMON DAVIS, MPH ’94 PEDIATRICIAN, BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Q: How has your MPH degree influenced your daily work as a doctor? And did studying the large social, political, and economic forces behind individual health make you more or…
Eliminating ‘food deserts’ not best strategy for reducing diet quality disparities
Efforts to improve diet quality in the U.S. and decrease disparities should not be focused on eliminating “food deserts”— areas with mostly low-income residents that lack access to a supermarket or large grocery store — according to researchers…
'Covering' to fit in and get ahead
August 26, 2015 — Legal scholar and gay Asian American Kenji Yoshino spoke on August 24 with Harvard Chan School staff, students, and faculty about his research and writings that examine the ways people “cover” or downplay those…
Racial bias and its effect on health care
August 12, 2015 -- Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health in the U.S. isn’t just the job of the health care sector—it’s the job of society as a whole, argues David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura…
Better communication, less violence
Steven Hafner is constantly asking the question “why?” And at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health he’s directing that question to the issue of violence against Native American women.
