Dr. David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been recently featured in … Continue reading “David R. Williams featured in the Chicago Sun-Times and in an interview with Dr. Evelynn Hammonds”
Dr. Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology, has been recently interviewed by Isaac Chotiner from The New Yorker in “The Interwoven Threads of Inequality and Health”. “There are two different … Continue reading “Nancy Krieger interviewed by The New Yorker”
Dr. Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, recently spoke with John Whyte, WebMD’s Chief Medical Officer, in Coronavirus in Context: 3 Practical Tips to Stay Informed, … Continue reading “Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath interviewed by WebMD; Viswanath Lab’s COVID-19 Dashboard”
In an interview with Communications’ Christopher Sweeney, Dr. Alan Geller, Senior Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences, discusses his new co-authored publication, New Systematic Therapies and Trends in Cutaneous Melanoma … Continue reading “Reversing the course of melanoma”
Santana Silver is a first year HSB-65 student interested in links between social inequalities and health disparities, with a focus on how social determinants affect chronic disease and mental illness … Continue reading “Student Spotlight: Santana Silver, MPH-HSB ’21”
Sarah Page is a first year HSB-65 student interested in maternal and child health and health communication. In this Q&A she shares her experience participating in this winter session’s CDC … Continue reading “Student Spotlight: Sarah Page, MPH-HSB ’21”
Massachusetts’ 4-month ban on the sale of vaping products has drawn criticism from some public health experts. Vaughan Rees, Director of the Center for Tobacco Control weighs in on how … Continue reading “Could MA vaping ban inadvertently harm health?”
Shoba Ramanadhan joined the SBS Department in July 2019 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Ramanadhan is an implementation science scholar whose areas of expertise include, capacity-building interventions for staff of … Continue reading “Dissemination and Implementation Science”
Mary Bassett became director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Social & … Continue reading “Health effects of inequality”
Estivaliz Castro is a second year HSB-65 student interested in program planning, implementation and evaluation. In this Q&A she shares her experiences as a participant of the American Evaluation Association … Continue reading “Student Spotlight: Estivaliz Castro, MPH-HSB ’19”
