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Tag: Harvard School of Public Health
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Campus & Community
Daily battle to improve health
Harvard School of Public Health student Lyle Ignace hopes to use his experience as an American Indian physician and his new understanding of public health systems to make a difference in the Native American community.
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Science & Tech
Most Americans who skipped H1N1 vaccines weren’t concerned about the illness
A comprehensive review of 20 national opinion polls, including 8 by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers, taken during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic finds two key reasons for the limited uptake of the H1N1 influenza vaccine. First, many people who did not get the vaccine were not convinced that the illness was a serious…
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Science & Tech
Faust calls global health one of her main priorities
Declaring the University’s efforts to improve the state of global health knowledge, education, and capacity building to be one of her “very highest priorities” as president of Harvard, Drew Faust today (May 18) announced the appointment of Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision…
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Health
Processed meats come with increased risk of heart disease, diabetes
In a new study, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that eating processed meat, such as bacon, sausage, or processed deli meats, led to a 42 percent higher risk of heart disease and a 19 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes. In contrast, the researchers did not find any…
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Campus & Community
Gokhan Hotamisligil receives honor for the Study of Obesity
Gökhan Hotamisligil, the J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, will receive the prestigious Wertheimer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity in July in Stockholm.
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Nation & World
Life of the party
The designated driver campaign is 21 years old. Jay Winsten, an influential force behind the anti-drunk-driving effort, reflects and looks ahead.
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Campus & Community
From plants to plates
Harvard’s food service operations are a massive undertaking, producing 26,000 meals daily in ways that have to please many palates.
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Health
Money not cure-all for health care
Analysts from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School for a think tank on health care reform.
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Nation & World
Unseen victims of war
Mental health ailments are widespread among Iraqi children and teenagers, a problem compounded by a lack of mental health treatment facilities and inattention to the problem, an Iraqi psychiatrist says.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and Banco Santander announce letter of intent
Harvard University and Banco Santander announced a letter of intent today that will enable Harvard to support master’s candidates and visiting fellows from China through participation in Banco Santander’s Marco Polo Program.
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Campus & Community
Lifetime achievement award presented to Spengler and Buckley
The New England Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Harvard Extension School’s John Spengler, and George Buckley an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of their exceptional work and commitment to the environment.
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Health
HIV, malaria, women, and children
Harvard, Boston University, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a seminar to unveil a report on the future of global health policy that calls for more money for women and children and a continued focus on HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.
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Science & Tech
Panel examines New England’s contributions, role in global health
A new report on global health policy calls for the United States to maintain its commitment to fight HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis and to double the funds committed to maternal and child health, to $2 billion a year. The report, unveiled at a Boston University (BU) conference co-sponsored by BU, Harvard, and the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Strategic and…
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Campus & Community
Treading the green carpet
One day after Earth Day, Harvard continued to celebrate the environment, rolling out a green carpet for the individuals, teams, projects, and Schools that have advanced the cause of sustainability.
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Campus & Community
Earth Day at 40
Harvard celebrates 40th anniversary of Earth Day with dinners, fairs, films, and discussions.
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Health
Height and death
Mothers shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches in low- to middle-income countries had about a 40 percent higher risk of their children dying within the first five years of life than mothers who were 5 feet, 3 inches or taller, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The risk was higher — almost…
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Campus & Community
In poor countries, taller moms’ kids are healthier
In developing countries, taller moms tend to give birth to healthier kids who are less likely to die in infancy, be underweight or have stunted growth, a new study finds…
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Health
Get the salt out
Responding to the health threat posed by Americans’ over-consumption of sodium, experts in the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) called today for sodium reduction strategies that are strong and effective—and that maximize the enjoyment people derive from food. “There is now overwhelming evidence…
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Health
The nicotine-candy connection
A new nicotine product, apparently designed to tide smokers over in places where they can’t light up, resembles some candy. It leads to fear among researchers that children will eat the pills and suffer poisoning.
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Health
Researchers warn new, dissolvable nicotine products could lead to accidental poisoning in children and youths
A tobacco company’s new, dissolvable nicotine pellet–which is being sold as a tobacco product, but which in some cases resembles popular candies–could lead to accidental nicotine poisoning in children, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the Northern Ohio Poison Control Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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Nation & World
Reducing malnutrition
The world is going to fall well short of achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, by 2015.
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Science & Tech
Battling climate change on all fronts
Harvard’s research spans the gamut from the sciences to the humanities, examining key questions about this critical challenge facing humanity.
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Nation & World
Doctor examines torture
Author and Harvard doctor Atul Gawande explored the practice of solitary confinement in a lecture at Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
Study: Walking Seems to Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests…
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Campus & Community
Radiation use may raise adult cancer risk
NEW YORK — Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation for malignancies as children or young adults, according to an analysis of studies… In the second study on lifespan, Jennifer Yeh, a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, developed a mathematical…
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Nation & World
Understanding health care reform
With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.
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Health
Childhood cancer survivors may face shortened lifespan, study reveals
Although more children today are surviving cancer than ever before, young patients successfully treated in the 1970s and 80s may live a decade less, on average, than the general population, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Depending on the type of cancer, the…