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Tag: Ashish Jha
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Health
Time to resume COVID restrictions in some safe states?
Officials in states that appear to have COVID-19 under control should keep an eye on a slow rise in cases, and take the chance to enact modest measures before case numbers begin to rise rapidly again, a Harvard expert said.
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Health
Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’
Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.
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Health
On-again, off-again looks to be best social-distancing option
Social distancing could allow a level of infection that can be handled by the health care system, but would build enough immunity to strangle the epidemic.
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Health
App predicts hospital capacity
Harvard’s Global Health Institute puts its research expertise into motion, helping hospitals assess capacity and quality of care so they can prepare for COVID-19 patients appropriately.
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Health
The algorithm will see you now
AI is coming to a hospital near you — but it may be in the world’s remote regions that it could impact patients most. However, experts gathered at Harvard said its potential will not be realized unless it is deployed as part of broader health care solutions, not simply as a tool in search of…
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Health
Reducing a global killer: Traffic accidents
The Harvard Global Health Institute, the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, and the Safe Life Foundation sponsored a half-day symposium to examine the causes of traffic accidents worldwide, and ways to reduce their number.
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Nation & World
‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health
The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.
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Health
Another climate change concern: Forced migration
Experts trace the fingerprints of climate change in the world’s mass migration crises, saying that the effects of shifting norma appear to play a role.
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Health
Fighting words from former EPA leader
Speaking at a Climate Week symposium, former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy urged an audience of climate scientists and health experts to speak out about climate change.
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Science & Tech
Global concerns on climate change
Harvard experts gather to discuss climate change in all its complexity, and share some surprising views.
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Science & Tech
Targeting the ills of climate change
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry helped launch a new Harvard climate change and global health initiative Thursday, saying that climate change impacts almost always affect human health.
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Health
The costs of inequality: Money = quality health care = longer life
National health insurance is just a first step to solving the divide between America’s well-off healthy and its poorer, sicker people, Harvard analysts say.
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Campus & Community
Ebola outbreak: A system that failed
During an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Ashish Jha examined where the global health system failed when Ebola began to spread.
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Health
New realities in care
Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, says the University has the talent, resources, and leadership to steer progress in improving health around the world.
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Health
Bringing global health home
The world is smaller than ever when it comes to infectious disease, a fact that means people have more at stake than ever before in each other’s health, speakers said at a symposium marking the fifth anniversary of the Harvard Global Health Institute.
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Health
The context of health care for all
Drawing on the experience of four nations, experts described how crises and fundamental transitions often prove the catalysts behind universal health care systems during a panel event Tuesday at Harvard’s Longwood campus.
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Health
Paying hospitals to improve doesn’t work
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health finds no evidence that the largest hospital-based pay-for-performance program in the U.S. improved 30-day mortality rates, a measure of whether patients survive their hospitalization.
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Health
Electronic medical records not a panacea?
The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, Harvard researchers from…
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Health
U.S. hospitals slow to adopt electronic health records, citing cost
There is broad consensus that electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care providers. Yet, to date, there has been no reliable…