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Gun violence in America
In the wake of Friday’s rampage in Newtown, Conn., during which 20 children and six staff members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Americans are searching for answers. It was the...
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Inside India’s pop-up city
This is the first in a series of articles on Harvard’s sweeping interdisciplinary work at the Kumbh Mela, a religious gathering in India that creates the world’s largest pop-up city. ALLAHABAD,...
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Tracking disease in a tent city
This is the last in a series about Harvard’s interdisciplinary work at the Kumbh Mela, a religious gathering in India that every 12 years creates the world’s largest pop-up city. ALLAHABAD, India —...
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Driving global issues home
In an ever-more-crowded media landscape, journalists and academics alike must think creatively about how to bring overlooked human rights issues to Americans’ attention, journalist Nicholas D. Kristof...
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Conservation’s siren song
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) rolled out six new patrol cars in February. But it wasn’t the flashing lights or fresh paint jobs that were turning heads. It was the 47 mpg,...
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Large-scale ethics
Dan W. Brock of Harvard Medical School (HMS) on Wednesday delivered the 63rd George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics at the School, focusing on population bioethics. His talk, “The Future of...
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Collaboration key in health gains, Clinton says
Former President Bill Clinton, Centennial Medalist at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), hailed global networks that have risen to improve health around the world, saying the cooperation they...
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Engineering a better life
When Kathy Ku ’13 proposed to build a water-filter factory in Uganda for $15,000 last year, her contacts in other African countries advised her to double her budget. Starting from scratch on a plot of...
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The bright side of Pakistan
The initial idea was a lecture by a noted Harvard design professor and a quiet discussion with a small group of interested local partners. By January, however, the event had grown into a three-day...
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Breathing easier over electricity
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its long-awaited draft regulations on carbon emissions from U.S. power plants, which would require a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide...
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Leading role for Murthy
Harvard health experts anticipated bold pronouncements on tobacco control, obesity, and mental health this week, as they digested the news that Harvard Medical School physician Vivek Murthy had been...
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Sick with measles, again
Last year was the worst for measles in the United States since the country was declared free of the disease in 2000. This year is not off to a promising start. The measles outbreak that began in...
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Gates Foundation CEO challenges students
As the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads a multibillion-dollar effort to improve health and promote equity for people around the world....
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Ingenuity in public health
How do we tackle the global health issues of the day? How do we get ahead of the problems that threaten tomorrow? Through engagement and prioritization, said Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton...
View ArticleGetting down to cases
Harvard is a place of high academic realms, where scholars tackle complex issues that would confound many observers. For instance, Emil Aamar is a fellow at Harvard Medical School who studies molecular...
View ArticleEdmond J. Safra graduate fellowships in ethics 2011-12
Applications are invited from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business,...
View ArticleKilling the ‘fiery serpent’
Health officials are poised to eradicate guinea worm disease, a plague that once afflicted millions and which would be just the second human disease wiped from the face of the earth, Donald Hopkins,...
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Holder’s mission
When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder uses the word “epidemic” to describe the rise of violence witnessed by children, he is not indulging in hyperbole. Use of the word is part of his mission to...
View ArticleThe battle of the butts
To Professor Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health, estimates that smoking may be banned in the United States by 2050 aren’t good enough. “I want to see the last cigarette sold to a...
View ArticleA world traveler, at work
Ablorde Ashigbi ’11 is used to moving between different worlds. Although he grew up in the United States, his father comes from Ghana and his mother from Gambia, both in West Africa. Ashigbi himself...
View ArticleDesignated Drivers
Barry R. Bloom Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health To tackle the problem of driving after...
View ArticleImmersed in the body politic
When Susan Greenhalgh says she studies “biopolitics,” one might imagine a form of futuristic, dystopian science. But Greenhalgh’s interests are hardly that. As the newest professor of anthropology in...
View ArticleFamily values, in an orphanage
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Sonya Soni, her Hindi relatives have long maintained, just might be her great-grandmother reincarnated. It’s not just...
View ArticleOrganizing for health care
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Pedrag Stojicic was studying medicine in his native Serbia in 2005, planning to become a surgeon, when a girl...
View ArticleBattle won, but more to come
Harvard School of Public Health analysts probe the importance of the Supreme Court ruling upholding national health care, and explain the law’s next challenge: the November election
View ArticleConcerns about climate change, health
For decades, scientists have known that the effects of global climate change could have a devastating impact across the globe, but Harvard researchers say there is now evidence that it may also have a...
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An experiment gone horribly awry
In the late 1940s, U.S. researchers used Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, and soldiers as laboratory animals, infecting them with syphilis without their knowledge in order to test new treatments...
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No easy answer for health void in Syria
Syria’s civil war, now under a fragile cease-fire, has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and left widespread devastation, including a health care system in crisis. Rebuilding that system will...
View ArticleChan School grad Oren Varnai makes the most of opportunity
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. When Oren Varnai “checked in” on Facebook from a Budapest café, he didn’t expect to be having lunch a few minutes...
View ArticleHarvard research reveals Coke’s fingerprints on health policy in China
A complex network of research funding, institutional ties, and personal influence allowed Coca-Cola, through connections with a nonprofit group, to exert substantial influence over obesity science and...
View ArticleHarvard grad follows a passion for global health
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Since childhood, Cynthia Luo knew she wanted to be a physician. In high school, she discovered a passion for cancer...
View ArticleHarvard’s Barry Bloom and Juliette Kayyem discuss measles outbreak
Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, but by early June, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 1,022 cases in 28 states, the most since 1992. The disease is...
View ArticleRagon Institute receives major gift to expand research into autoimmune diseases
With a promising HIV vaccine already in clinical trials, and research revealing how some people can naturally control HIV without medications, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard has hit its...
View ArticleClose to half of U.S. population projected to have obesity by 2030
About half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have severe obesity by 2030, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study also...
View Article5 healthy habits may offer years free of chronic diseases
Maintaining five healthy habits — eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too much alcohol, and not smoking — at middle-age may increase years lived...
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Public confident they can keep themselves safe during pandemic
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest...
View ArticleHarvard researcher explains how Coke shaped health policy in China
Last year, anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh, the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, revealed how the Coca-Cola Co. worked through an industry-funded global...
View ArticleWhat caused the U.S.’ anti-science trend?
Is the pandemic the most important election issue this year? That depends on whom you ask. Those who say that it is tend to favor overwhelmingly (82 percent) Joseph R. Biden, the Democratic Party...
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How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace
Now that COVID-19 vaccines are finally here, employers have begun looking ahead to an eventual full return to the workplace in the coming months. But even though their offices may look exactly as they...
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With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’
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View ArticleLooking at public health through an LTGBTQ+ lens
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Austin Marshall, M.P.H. ’21, wants to be a physician-advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and care for patients as a...
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Harvard students give back to Greater Boston community
Students from Schools, centers, and programs across the University volunteer their time, effort, and expertise to advance work being done by local government and community organizations across Greater...
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Disney Co. chief medical officer offers return-to-work strategies
The array of interconnected forces and relentless uncertainty unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic has profoundly tested people’s physical and mental health over the last 19 months. Now, as many...
View ArticleHealth services chief gives tips on keeping Harvard healthy
As the school year opens for students, faculty, and staff, the University has successfully employed a range of preventative measures to maintain a low rate of COVID-19 infection. At Harvard, the...
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Marcella Alsan gets MacArthur for her work on health inequities
It seemed unbelievable at first. Marcella Alsan was in Professor Allan M. Brandt’s undergraduate class on the history of medicine and public health in America when she first learned about the infamous...
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Doctor draws on cartoons for persuasive public health messaging
The cartoon showed a COVID vaccine syringe in the form of a gun held against a recipient’s head. It listed those not responsible if the vaccine — hastily researched and manufactured — went awry:...
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Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates
A new paper published in the March 2 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine argues a minimal standard for inmate health care established in a 1976 Supreme Court ruling could soon be struck down...
View ArticleDoctor who helped vanquish smallpox assesses COVID response
In 1970s India, the physician and epidemiologist Larry Brilliant played an important role in efforts that eradicated smallpox caused by the deadliest form of the virus, variola major. Since then, he...
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COVID prison releases expose key driver of racial inequity
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. experienced a historic reduction in prison population as admissions declined and many incarcerated people were released — both routinely and as part...
View ArticleNYT reporter explains how federal missteps opened door to COVID misinformation
Federal agencies helped set the stage for a wave of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories about its origins through early missteps in messaging about the virus and control measures, stumbles...
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