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For immediate release: July 31, 2019 Boston, MA – Children born with HIV in the U.S. were less likely to adhere to their medications as they aged from preadolescence to adolescence and into young adulthood, according to a…
Stemming the health consequences of childhood trauma
Tiana Woolridge, MPH ’19, wants to help vulnerable children build strategies for mental wellness.
What can design do for public health?
A leading public health expert and a leading design expert share what they’ve learned from each other and how the principles of design can be applied to address some of the world’s most complex health challenges.
Disparities in life expectancy in Massachusetts driven by societal factors
New life expectancy data show that there are massive variations across different areas of Massachusetts, likely driven by societal factors such as education, income, race, and access to health care. According to data from the National Center for…
America is Failing its Black Mothers
For decades, Harvard Chan alumni have shed light on high maternal mortality rates in African American women. Finally, policymakers are beginning to pay attention.
The power of a family meal
Family meals can have an important influence on the quality of food that children and teens eat.
Marie McCormick, leader in field of maternal and child health, honored at symposium
Colleagues, students, and friends of Marie McCormick, Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor, emerita, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recently gathered to honor her distinguished career in maternal and child health.
A public health wish list
Ensuring clean drinking water, boosting cancer screening, providing incentives aimed at healthy eating, and addressing socioeconomic factors that affect health such as housing and insurance are some of the measures that should be emphasized to improve public health,…
Using ‘social determinants’ data to improve health care
Some data-gathering companies have begun to scan public records for data on people’s “social determinants of health”—such as arrest records, bankruptcy filings, or marriages and divorces—and are offering it for sale to insurers and health systems, with the…
Influence of mothers, peers linked to drop in early smoking
A new study found that children born in the United Kingdom in the early 2000s were much less likely to have smoked cigarettes at an early age than children born 30 years earlier—and the drop may be explained…