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Teaching nutrition in an era of obesity and diabetes
Teaching more nutrition education and self-care skills like mindfulness and behavioral change to medical students and other health professionals will better prepare them to teach patients to lead healthier lives…
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The world’s surgeon
John Meara has been named the inaugural incumbent of the Kletjian Professorship in Global Surgery at Harvard Medical School, among the first global surgery professorships to be established at an…
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VPAL showcases Gund 522, The HILT Room
Yesterday the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) hosted a meeting for the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) in Gund 522, an innovative classroom funded…
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Striving and thriving: Reducing the effects of adversity on early childhood development
It’s estimated that half of the 500 million children in low- and middle-income countries will face physical or cognitive developmental challenges. That eye-opening number set the tone for the second…
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Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Youth and Media are excited to announce the release of the new ebook “Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media,”…
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To improve bicycle safety, crash reports need to capture more data
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers are calling upon police in all states to improve their reporting of crashes involving vehicles and bicycles, according to a new study.…
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Vice Provost Peter Bol named 2015 Honorary Geographer
The Association of American Geographers has named Peter Bol as its 2015 Honorary Geographer. Bol is the vice provost for advances in learning and the Charles H. Carswell Professor of…
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Miami Herald wins Bingham Prize at Nieman Foundation
The Miami Herald’s meticulously researched “Innocents Lost” series, which examines the deaths of hundreds of children in Florida, has won the 2014 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. The Herald’s…
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Coping during the Ebola epidemic—and beyond
Epidemiologist and infectious disease immunologist Mosoka Fallah, M.P.H. ’12, has been on the front lines for many months in his native Liberia battling the Ebola epidemic, which began in December…
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Harvard recognized for excellence in sustainable transportation
Harvard’s sustainable transportation program, specifically its transit subsidy for employees, was recently recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation with an Excellence in Commuter Options (ECO) award. The ECO awards…
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Obama plan could boost health care for immigrants
Millions of undocumented immigrants could get a reprieve from the threat of deportation and a chance for legal employment in the U.S. under a recent proposed executive action from President…
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Air pollution may trigger anxiety symptoms
Recent exposure to air pollution raises the risk for anxiety symptoms, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and colleagues. The study…
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New model for predicting cardiovascular disease risk worldwide
Researchers have developed the first global model for predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The model—developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and colleagues—will be of…
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Advertising’s toxic effect on eating and body image
People often claim to ignore advertisements, but the messages are getting through on a subconscious level, pioneering author and ad critic Jean Kilbourne told an audience at Harvard T. H.…
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Soft robotics expert receives NSF CAREER Award
Conor J. Walsh, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically…
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Catching and releasing tiny molecules
Employing an ingenious microfluidic design that combines chemical and mechanical properties, a team of Harvard scientists has demonstrated a new way of detecting and extracting biomolecules from fluid mixtures. The…
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Harvard Global Health Institute and others convene independent panel on response to Ebola
The Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola is holding its inaugural meeting in Boston this weekend. It will analyze the major weaknesses in the global health system exposed…
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Harvard Masquerade Ball 2015 attracts more than 2,100 attendees
Spinning aerialists, fearless stilt walkers, seemingly boneless contortionists, daring acrobatic performances, gravity-defying swan ballerinas, multicultural local and nationally known musicians, and hula hoop artists … Such was the nature of…
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The birth of public health education
The modern era of public health education is generally credited to a May 27, 1915 report by William Welch and Wickliffe Rose, commonly known as the “Welch-Rose report.” But a…
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Food microbes beware: It’s raining nanobombs
Can super-tiny droplets of water sprayed at strawberries, spinach, and lettuce kill deadly food pathogens? Philip Demokritou, associate professor of aerosol physics and director of the Laboratory for Environmental Health…
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Racism harmful to health
The offensive fraternity chant recently caught on camera at the University of Oklahoma is a reminder that racism continues to envelop the U.S. “like a fog,” New York Times columnist…
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CfA-designed solar exhibit opens at National Air and Space Museum
“The Dynamic Sun,” a new exhibit conceived, designed and built by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), has just opened at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum…
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The draw of ISIS for Western youth
A desire for a new identity and a taste for excitement and violence are among the factors that are attracting a growing number of educated teens and young adults from…
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Folic acid may help significantly lower stroke risk
A new study by Chinese researchers has found that folic acid supplements are associated with significantly lower risk of stroke in people with high blood pressure. In an editorial accompanying…
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Where the spiritual and scholarly meet
Matthew L. Potts has a really long commute to work. Since 2013, when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), Potts has been driving…
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Harvard Foundation to honor Goodman as Scientist of the Year
Alyssa A. Goodman, Harvard professor of astronomy and research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, has been selected the 2015 Scientist of the Year, part of the Harvard Foundation Albert Einstein…
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Harvard’s Stoddard among three U.S.-based scientists recognized
Mary Caswell Stoddard, a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and member of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, is one of three U.S.-based women…
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Harvard Chan researchers featured in inaugural issue of health systems journal
The new journal Health Systems and Reform (HS&R) launched in March 2015 with an issue featuring authors affiliated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The quarterly peer-reviewed journal…
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Measles outbreaks worrying, but ‘on-time’ childhood vaccination remains norm in U.S.
The recent measles outbreak that spread through 17 states brought the issue of childhood vaccination into the headlines, leaving some with the impression that a growing movement of parents is…
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HGSE Dean Ryan announces Harvard Teacher Fellows leadership team
Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean James Ryan announced today the appointment of Eric Shed and Stephen Mahoney – both long-term educators with experience teaching and heading teacher preparation education…