Tag: Community health

  • Nation & World

    Making field to table work regionally

    Nina Sayles’ love of gardening is blooming into a drive to provide more nutritious foods for us all.

    6 minutes
    Nina Sayles
  • Nation & World

    Classroom theory, community action

    Urban Health and Community Change,” a social studies course that debuted last semester, took students out of the classroom and into the Somerville community to roll up their sleeves and take practical action to help the less advantaged.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fewer clinics, less care

    The protective gear needed to get Sierra Leone’s health clinics reopened, coupled with public education about the Ebola epidemic, are the greatest areas of need, according to a Harvard Fulbright Fellow and physician from Sierra Leone.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    House calls, without visits

    With a master’s from the School of Public Health, physician Darrell Gray hopes to use telecommunications to extend care to endangered groups in underserved neighborhoods.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Bridging the doctor-patient divide

    Graduating Harvard Medical School student Katherine Johnson hopes to bridge barriers between doctors and patients by using her skills in the community as she begins her residency.

    4 minutes