Tag: Department of Population and International Health

Science & Tech
Smoking and solid-fuel-burning in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths

If current levels of smoking and biomass and coal fuel use in homes continues, between 2003 and 2033 there will be an estimated 65 million deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary…

October 3, 2008
Science & Tech
SPH professor finds Taliban inmates dying, in need of care

Jennifer Leaning is a professor in the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Population and International Health. She is also one of Physicians for Human Rights’ founders. In January…

February 7, 2002
Health
New vaccines could balance global burden of disease

The scientific community believes that diseases that have long plagued the world can be controlled by vaccination. But vaccines won’t work unless they reach the people who need them most…

February 23, 2001
Science & Tech
Examining differing reproductive desires in Gambia

For men in rural Gambia, more than 15 kids are desirable. That’s double the number of children that women are actually delivering. The number may seem high to people in…

September 22, 2000