A call to decode human immune system to help protect our global aging population

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Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle A. Williams, ScD, has co-authored a Perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine that calls for more longitudinal studies in aging populations to better understand the “mechanics of immunity” in this vulnerable, growing sector of our global community.  Learn more in this news item by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Former Harvard Bell Fellow authors book on global aging

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan head shot

Our former Bell Fellow (2008-2010 cohort) Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is author of the book As the World Ages (Harvard University Press). Learn more about her work in Columbia University’s Public Health Now Q&A “Global Aging is a Local Issue.” Photo: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan during fellowship at Harvard Pop Center