Featured series 
Tag: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Campus & Community
Looking at public health through an LTGBTQ+ lens
Austin Marshall, M.P.H. ’21, wants to be a physician-advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and care for patients as a doctor.
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Campus & Community
Finding a call to action in global poverty and blindness
Lawson Ung studied eye disease and the social determinants of where it’s most common
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Campus & Community
Aging matters
Sneha Dutta, Ph.D. ’21, wants to understand why individuals age differently and if there’s a way to counter old age’s harmful effects .
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Nation & World
Only a little change for migrants at the U.S. border
The danger President Biden faces at the U.S. border is in letting inertia built up over decades continue to deploy a mainly law-enforcement approach, rather than a humanitarian approach, to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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Nation & World
‘In India, anything and everything is a super-spreader event’
As COVID-19 cases in India soar and a new variant is identified, Harvard Chan School’s S.V. Subramanian offers some observations.
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Health
Asian Americans more worried about racist Americans than coronavirus
A new survey shows that Asian Americans are more worried about the possibility of being a victim of pandemic-related racism than the virus itself
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Nation & World
Why the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil has become a humanitarian crisis
Marcia de Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil.
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Health
‘Very strong degree of normality’ likely by year’s end
Though the so-far-successful U.S. vaccination drive is likely to deliver an approximation of normal life by year’s end, Anthony Fauci and a panel of heath care experts cautioned that the global battle against COVID-19 is far from won.
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Nation & World
The fight for environmental justice
The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.
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Nation & World
Curbing gun violence in the United States
Stopping gun violence will take myriad approaches, according to David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and author of the 2006 book “Private Guns, Public Health.”
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Health
Approval of at-home tests releases a powerful pandemic-fighting weapon
FDA approval of two over-the-counter rapid antigen tests promises to transform the testing landscape around COVID-19, lowering cost and giving the certainty of knowing when you’re infected to the individual, a Harvard epidemiologist said.
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Work & Economy
Harvard Chan School launches public health program for business leaders
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health launches public health program for business leaders.
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Health
Professor, banking giant join on studies of rapid COVID tests to avoid future shutdowns
A new trial seeks to test whether cheap rapid tests given three times a week can keep the workplace safe despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
In memoriam: Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown, a beloved Emeritus faculty member and mentor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, died on Feb. 16, 2021 at his home in Chestnut Hill, Mass. He was 99.
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Health
Chan School study gives airports high marks in COVID safety
Harvard scientists say airports are employing a layered approach to make air travel safer for those who must fly.
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Health
Upgrade your mask as more-transmissible COVID strain surges
With new coronavirus variants on the U.S. pandemic scene, experts say brace yourself for another surge — and mask up.
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Nation & World
Amid pandemic tragedy, an opportunity for change?
The Harvard chairs of a new Lancet commission studying universal health care in India say the coronavirus’ impact there has created a moment of opportunity for change.
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Health
The movies may have been right
When things are looking bad or worse, try some perspective, advises Professor Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Optimism makes things better.
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Health
Pandemic pushes mental health to the breaking point
The coronavirus has had an unexpected mental health impact, striking hardest where its physical impacts are lowest: among youths and young adults.
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Health
Immunologist says technology can keep up with COVID variants
Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.
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Health
Assessing the latest U.S. dietary guidelines
Harvard Chan School professor Eric Rimm looks at the updated U.S. dietary guidelines — what’s changed and what should change.
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Nation & World
K-12 education appears on downward slide as pandemic continues
U.S. K-12 schools are struggling through a difficult school year, with a significant number of children who are learning remotely becoming chronically absent, a Harvard education experts said Tuesday.
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Health
Fauci says herd immunity possible by fall, ‘normality’ by end of 2021
Fauci predicted herd immunity by next fall and “normality” by 2021’s end, as long as enough people get vaccinated to bring the pandemic to an end.
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Health
How pandemic set back efforts to fight other deadly global health problems
COVID-19 has not only sickened and killed millions around the globe, it has wreaked havoc on existing programs to fight health ills that affect millions more. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle Williams discusses with the Gazette an “action agenda” on global health for the incoming Biden administration.
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Health
Closing the gap
Mortality rate after cancer surgery drops during 10-year period, but gap persists between Black and white patients.
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Health
Will there be a serious post-Thanksgiving COVID surge?
Evidence of a post-Thanksgiving surge should be emerging this week, a Harvard epidemiologist said, advising people who gathered together to get tested or assume they’re infected.
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Nation & World
What will the new post-pandemic normal look like?
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing changes big and small to the economy, to society, even to the trajectory of young lives. Harvard experts weigh in on some key areas.
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Health
U.S. failed to control pandemic, but vaccination provides ‘chance to get next phase right’
Experts said the complex rollout of a coronavirus vaccine gives the U.S. a chance for a win after the virus gained the upper hand in its initial phase.
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Health
Have yourself a happy, healthy pandemic Thanksgiving
Harvard psychiatric epidemiologist Karestan Koenen said acknowledging that this Thanksgiving will be hard is a first step toward a meaningful holiday.
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Health
Keeping safe from pandemic during the holidays
William Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, offers key advice as the holidays approach.
