Featured series 
Tag: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Nation & World
One way of putting it
Harvard scholars offer their picks for the word that sums up 2023
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Health
Why are Americans so sick? Researchers point to middle grocery aisles.
Obesity and disease rising with consumption of ultra-processed foods, say Chan School panelists
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Health
Legacy of heading off deaths from industrial air pollution
Dominici details decades-old Harvard roots of latest findings showing particles from coal-fired power plants deadliest
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Nation & World
Someone stole Karestan Koenen’s future. She took it back.
Trauma expert speaks from brutal experience
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Nation
Other countries put lives before guns. Why can’t we?
Harvard Chan School’s David Hemenway on the rampage in Maine, how ordinary citizens should respond, and the question he hears from horrified students new to the U.S.
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Campus & Community
Andrea Baccarelli named next dean of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Andrea Baccarelli, noted scientist, educator, and leader, will begin his new role on Jan. 1
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Health
How social isolation, loneliness can shorten life
A new study shows that social isolation and loneliness are not same thing but can be connected, sometimes in surprising ways.
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Health
How durable is your immunity?
William Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology, talks about hybrid protection, vulnerability of older people, and the wisdom of Taylor Swift.
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Health
Mental health ills are rising. Do mood-tracking apps help?
Public health data specialist says they can raise patient awareness, but there are pitfalls.
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Health
Strong, silent, and suffering inside
Mental health experts, Indianapolis Colts owner discuss efforts to end the stigma around asking for help.
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Health
Are new weight-loss drugs the answer to America’s obesity problem?
Some doctors call them a godsend, particularly as part of wider treatment plan; others warn against halting research into root causes of obesity.
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Campus & Community
After four generations, an emergency focus on climate change
Julia Malits will be the fourth generation of women in her family to go into medicine. She will be the first, though, to focus on emergency medicine and climate change.
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Health
‘Happiness is not a destination … Happiness is the way’
Harvard Chan School of Public Health celebrates opening of $25 million Thich Nhat Hanh Center for research, approaches to mindfulness.
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Health
Expanding our understanding of gut feelings
Women who suppressed emotions had less diverse microbiomes in a study that also found a specific bacterial link to happiness.
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Campus & Community
Benita Kayembe takes hard look at hidden human cost of electric cars
Studying at Harvard Chan School has helped graduate Benita Kayembe understand the forces that shape the health of people around the world.
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Health
Take it from the experts, a pet can change your life
The health benefits of animal companions have been supported by science but not society, with the disadvantaged facing similar barriers to pet ownership as they do in securing proper healthcare, experts said at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Monday.
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Health
Elevated dementia risk even when pollution is below EPA standards
Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants (PM2.5) may increase the risk of developing dementia, according to a new meta-analysis from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Health
William Hanage on COVID lessons we haven’t learned
Harvard epidemiologist looks back and ahead.
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Nation & World
Prospect dim for Biden plan to bolster Medicare, health policy expert says
President Biden’s budget highlighted the projected Medicare shortfalls and proposed a solution, almost certainly dead on arrival in the Republican-held House. Health care policy expert John McDonough takes a look at what’s real and what’s politics.
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Health
Lack of sleep will catch up to you in more ways than one
Experts highlight the health and memory effects, offer suggestions for countering environmental disruptions.
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Health
Model predicts risk of endometrial cancer
Current screening guidelines ignore those at high risk for the most prevalent gynecological malignancy in U.S.
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Health
Really need to start exercising but hate it? Just move
Health professionals say any regular activity is useful. If it’s been a while, ramp up ‘like a crockpot: low and slow’
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Health
With an eye on climate, a helping hand for health care’s front lines
A new toolkit for community-based health centers offers advice to clinicians, patients, and administrators on how to prepare for and handle climate-related emergencies.
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Health
When pollinator populations are in peril
New Harvard study finds pollination loss removes healthy foods from global diets, increases chronic diseases causing an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually.
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Health
Eating more during the holidays? Don’t mistake Oreo calories for olive calories.
David Ludwig discusses the drivers of the country’s obesity crisis and how more people can maintain a healthy weight.
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Campus & Community
Williams to step down as dean of Harvard Chan School
Epidemiologist Michelle Williams will return to teaching and research after a dozen years of innovative collaborations and meeting public health challenges.
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Science & Tech
A global beacon on climate change
Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability casts off with University-wide, interdisciplinary approach to begin finding real solutions to existential crisis .
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Work & Economy
We’re living longer so that just means we work longer, right?
The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.
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Health
Is pandemic finally over? We asked the experts.
Harvard faculty discuss changes to views on school, work, winter’s likely surge, danger of “lethal inflexibility.”
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Health
Why are young people so miserable?
A Harvard-led study examining measures of well-being showed younger adults had the lowest scores of any age group.
